[3.11] gh-92984: Explicitly disable incremental linking for Windows Release and PGO builds (GH-92985)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-05-19-14-01-30.gh-issue-92984.Dsxnlr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-05-19-14-01-30.gh-issue-92984.Dsxnlr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..2d3071b00b7618
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-05-19-14-01-30.gh-issue-92984.Dsxnlr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Explicitly disable incremental linking for non-Debug builds
diff --git a/PCbuild/pyproject.props b/PCbuild/pyproject.props
index 8d24393aa1861e..df3efc631d154f 100644
--- a/PCbuild/pyproject.props
+++ b/PCbuild/pyproject.props
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     <SupportSigning Condition="'$(SupportSigning)' == ''">true</SupportSigning>
     <SupportSigning Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">false</SupportSigning>
     <SupportSigning Condition="'$(ConfigurationType)' == 'StaticLibrary'">false</SupportSigning>
+    <LinkIncremental Condition="$(Configuration) != 'Debug'">false</LinkIncremental>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <PropertyGroup>

(cherry picked from commit 38feffa09c74d9a853745908b7813903bae33b96)


Co-authored-by: David Machaj <46852402+dmachaj@users.noreply.github.com>