Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
+ correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
+
- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
final argument is True.