Too many build tool chains do not properly support it, including building
and linking an executable fine that simply segfaults when you try to run
it (such as debian jessie 8.5's gcc 4.9).  On others where it does appear
to build (ubuntu 16.04's gcc 5.4) there are still test_distutils and test_gdb
failures to deal with.

We're not going to spend time attempting to maintain a complicated white list
of what does and doesn't work in our configure.ac file.