fix the Makefile so it doesn't pollute sys.path
#4349 reviewed by Christian
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 0e15725..9e01d84 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -801,7 +801,6 @@
# Install the library
PLATDIR= plat-$(MACHDEP)
EXTRAPLATDIR= @EXTRAPLATDIR@
-EXTRAMACHDEPPATH=@EXTRAMACHDEPPATH@
MACHDEPS= $(PLATDIR) $(EXTRAPLATDIR)
XMLLIBSUBDIRS= xml xml/dom xml/etree xml/parsers xml/sax
LIBSUBDIRS= tkinter site-packages test test/output test/data \
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index acedeb1..45e965b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #4349: sys.path included a non-existent platform directory because of a
+ faulty Makefile.
+
- Issue #3327: Don't overallocate in the modules_by_index list.
- Issue #1721812: Binary set operations and copy() returned the input type