python

• Depends on libgcov.a from gcc
• Use bundled mpdecimal
• Add gdbm as a build-time dependency: https://docs.python.org/3/using/configure.html
• --with-pymalloc provides better performance
• Remove the pip symlinks in install if it is not being installed
• Check --disable-test-modules
• Alpine and Arch provide “Externally Managed” python
• --enable-optimizations runs a suite of tests, and then uses collected profiling data to improve the performance of the installation itself, and some tests might hang in cross which is why a native rebuild is better with optimizations, once the system is complete
• Unable to use upstream binaries