Having CFLAGS come before OPT prevents silencing certain classes of warnings
from the fact that OPT contains -Wall be default. This is annoying when
compilers like clang have thorough debugging information about things that
Python does extensively (e.g. -Wunused-value for unused return values caused by
a macro use).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 982ef70..a9b19dc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1461,6 +1461,8 @@
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+- Have CFLAGS come after OPT to allow for overriding warnings flags.
+
- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for