commit 22dcf66f849c50c8bcb08537c02e8242ae6a0f4a
author Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> Wed Oct 13 15:54:17 2004 +0000
committer Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> Wed Oct 13 15:54:17 2004 +0000
tree 9deca02f0530285ed09d01a7c87d6592770240cf
parent 8a560dee7291f75968eea773c1258f2c25b5a81f

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...)

Misc/NEWS

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5c60dca..58fa750 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- 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