Split OPT make variable into OPT and BASECFLAGS. The latter contains those
compiler flags which are necessary to get a clean compile. The former is
for user-specified optimizer, debug, trace fiddling. See patch 640843.
Add /sw/lib and /sw/include to setup.py search paths on Darwin to take
advantage of fink goodies.
Add scriptsinstall target to Makefile to install certain scripts from
Tools/scripts directory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e49f17e..702abc4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,24 @@
Build
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+- On systems which build using the configure script, compiler flags which
+ used to be lumped together using the OPT flag have been split into two
+ groups, OPT and BASECFLAGS. OPT is meant to carry just optimization- and
+ debug-related flags like "-g" and "-O3". BASECFLAGS is meant to carry
+ compiler flags that are required to get a clean compile. On some
+ platforms (many Linux flavors in particular) BASECFLAGS will be empty by
+ default. On others, such as Mac OS X and SCO, it will contain required
+ flags. This change allows people building Python to override OPT without
+ fear of clobbering compiler flags which are required to get a clean build.
+
+- On Darwin/Mac OS X platforms, /sw/lib and /sw/include are added to the
+ relevant search lists in setup.py. This allows users building Python to
+ take advantage of the many packages available from the fink project
+ <http://fink.sf.net/>.
+
+- A new Makefile target, scriptsinstall, installs a number of useful scripts
+ from the Tools/scripts directory.
+
C API
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