Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
Backported to 2.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8a2d504..ef879c4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@
 Library
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+- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
+
 - Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
   to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.