[3.12] gh-117804: Document how to suppress PGO unprofiled source warnings (GH-117859) (#117912)

miss-islington · erlend-aasland · web-flow · commit 556fb3675c87 · 2024-04-15T21:24:35.000Z
(cherry picked from commit 757891e) Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
diff --git a/Doc/using/configure.rst b/Doc/using/configure.rst
@@ -302,6 +302,15 @@ also be used to improve performance.
    GCC is used: add ``-fno-semantic-interposition`` to the compiler and linker
    flags.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      During the build, you may encounter compiler warnings about
+      profile data not being available for some source files.
+      These warnings are harmless, as only a subset of the code is exercised
+      during profile data acquisition.
+      To disable these warnings on Clang, manually suppress them by adding
+      ``-Wno-profile-instr-unprofiled`` to :envvar:`CFLAGS`.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.6
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.10
