Discourage using GCC 4.2 for Python.
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submit a documentation bug report to SourceForge (see Bug Reports
above) so we can remove them!)
+GCC 4.2: There is a known incompatibility between Python and GCC,
+ where GCC 4.2 takes an interpretation of C different from
+ prior GCC releases, in an area where C has undefined behaviour
+ (namely, integer arithmetic involving -sys.maxint-1).
+ As a consequence, compiling Python with GCC 4.2 is not
+ recommend. It is likely that this problem will be resolved
+ in future Python releases.
+
Unix platforms: If your vendor still ships (and you still use) Berkeley DB
1.85 you will need to edit Modules/Setup to build the bsddb185
module and add a line to sitecustomize.py which makes it the