Introduced EXTRA_CFLAGS as an environment variable used by the Makefile. Meant
to be used for flags that change binary compatibility.
Distutils was tweaked to also use the variable if used during compilation of
the interpreter.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 23f760b..1557a46 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -276,6 +276,11 @@
Build
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+- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
+ flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
+ distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
+ compilation of the interpreter.
+
- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.