Patch 983206: distutils obeys LDSHARED env var. Removed the code in
Python's own setup.py that did the same thing (and tested on Solaris,
where LDSHARED is needed...)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 978b640..cfaf7d6 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -499,6 +499,7 @@
Hugo van Rossum
Saskia van Rossum
Donald Wallace Rouse II
+Liam Routt
Audun S. Runde
Jeff Rush
Sam Rushing
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5c60dca..58fa750 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
Library
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+- Patch 983206: distutils now obeys environment variable LDSHARED, if
+ it is set.
+
- Added Peter Astrand's subprocess.py module. See PEP 324 for details.
- time.strptime() now properly escapes timezones and all other locale-specific