The test for the presence of variables (really symbols) does not work
when you add -Ox -flto to CFLAGS:
for v in $vars; do
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for $v])
AC_CACHE_VAL(libiberty_cv_var_$v,
[AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[int *p;]],[[extern int $v [];
p = $v;]])],
[eval "libiberty_cv_var_$v=yes"],
[eval "libiberty_cv_var_$v=no"])])
if eval "test \"`echo '$libiberty_cv_var_'$v`\" = yes"; then
AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED($n)
else
AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
fi
done
because the assignment to 'p' is optimized away by LTO. This is visible
on MinGW platforms in the form of a link failure for sys_siglist.
There is another link failures for stpcpy: the symbol is both referenced
by libiberty's pex-win32.c and provided by libiberty's stpcpy.c, so it
needs to have a linkage to be resolved in LTO mode.
libiberty/
* configure.ac: Make test for variables more robust.
* configure: Regenerate.
gcc/
* builtins.c (builtin_with_linkage_p): Return true for stp[n]cpy.
* symtab.c (symtab_node::output_to_lto_symbol_table_p): Tidy up.