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  r76738 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-12-10 11:27:09 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) | 6 lines

  Fix an issue with the detection of a non-existing SDK
  on OSX. Without this patch it wasn't possible after all
  to compile extensions on OSX 10.6 with the binary
  installer unless the user had installed the (non-default)
  10.4u SDK.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 622ec92..3821609 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@
   compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64.  This fixes a reported
   problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
 
+- Ensure that it possible to build extensions for the default
+  binary distribution on OSX 10.6 even when the user does not
+  have the 10.4u SDK installed.
+
 Tests
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