Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
--with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes" because the
bundled libffi sources are too old.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0538d94..ff20956 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
+  --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
+
 - IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
   files are updated.