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Python build with frame pointers enabled?

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For profiling Python applications, using [the Linux perf support in Python 3.12](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/perf_profiling.html), it would be very helpful to have a build of Python available which has frame pointers enabled. For some additional context: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-17/the-return-of-the-frame-pointers.html

As I'm using conda most of the time to install different Python versions, it would be very nice to have Python w/ frame pointers directly available as a conda package. Is this maybe already available somewhere, or is this something one can realistically build locally? Would that just be a matter of patching `recipe/build_base.sh` to include `-fno-omit-frame-pointer` and `-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer` in the `CFLAGS` and running `build-locally.py`? Thanks!

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