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  r71884 | tarek.ziade | 2009-04-25 14:51:59 +0200 (Sat, 25 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_scripts.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_scripts.py
index 2acfab8..b55eb58 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_scripts.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_scripts.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
         # On linux-g++-32 with command line `./configure --enable-ipv6
         # --with-suffix=3`, python is compiled okay but the build scripts
         # failed when writing the name of the executable
-        old = sysconfig._config_vars.get('VERSION')
+        old = sysconfig.get_config_vars().get('VERSION')
         sysconfig._config_vars['VERSION'] = 4
         try:
             cmd.run()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b9fc50a..9f9ad37 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -441,6 +441,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses 
+  sysconfig.get_config_vars.
+
 - Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
 
 - Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.