Add a way to ignore JIT stencil digest

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

In Fedora, we use prebuilt JIT stencils on some of the Fedora versions/editions.

When autoconf was updated from 2.72 to 2.73 in Fedora Rawhide, we observed a change in the checksum:

--- /builddir/build/SOURCES/Python-3.15.0a7-x86_64-debug-jit_stencils.h 2026-03-10 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ build/debug/jit_stencils-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.h 2026-03-31 21:12:53.391262973 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// 5e1dc452d67c20147c4ea13e692c2d3e7b0b47b24f8847354c58988c7ffa02bc
+// c783e3946f774d4d83e8fdcca35678ec77006e1b96b12661fcbd3ee680d10e94
 // $ python3.14 /builddir/build/BUILD/python3.14-3.15.0_a7-build/Python-3.15.0a7/Tools/jit/build.py x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --output-dir . --pyconfig-dir . --cflags= --llvm-version= --debug

The autoconf-generated pyconfig.h file is part of the checksum input:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.15.0a8/Tools/jit/_targets.py#L75

My understanding is that the reason for this checksum check is to prevent outdated JIT stencils when Python is re-configured with different options (or when the stencils generation code is updated).

As suspected, the change in checksum was caused by a change in pyconfig.h:

--- pyconfig.h
+++ pyconfig.h
@@ -1882,6 +1882,10 @@
 #ifndef _ALL_SOURCE
 # define _ALL_SOURCE 1
 #endif
+/* Enable extensions on Cosmopolitan Libc. */
+#ifndef _COSMO_SOURCE
+# define _COSMO_SOURCE 1
+#endif
 /* Enable general extensions on macOS.  */
 #ifndef _DARWIN_C_SOURCE
 # define _DARWIN_C_SOURCE 1

This is expected, see https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/NEWS?h=v2.73#n99

tl;dr When a new autoconf version changes the output of pyconfig.h, the checksum changes as well.

We cannot update the pre-built stencils with the new checksum because that would make the build fail with older autoconf.

Hence, I am proposing we have a way to instruct the Tools/jit/_targets.py tool to ignore checksum mismatch. We would then use this option in Fedora.

For example, ./configure --enable-prebuilt-jit-stencils.

I will open a draft PR for consideration. Thanks.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

What we do in Fedora was previously discussed in https://discuss.python.org/t/building-the-jit-with-pre-built-stencils/91838

Linked PRs

• gh-148647

Commencez par Tools/jit/_targets.py et la proposition existante --enable-prebuilt-jit-stencils, puis examinez la PR préliminaire liée gh-148647. Vérifiez comment la somme de contrôle inclut pyconfig.h et définissez le comportement attendu lorsque les stencils précompilés proviennent d’une version différente d’autoconf. Le travail est terminé lorsque Fedora peut désactiver l’échec dû à une incohérence sans affaiblir la protection par défaut.