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  r77169 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-30 21:17:18 -0600 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  add a --with-system-expat option to build pyexpat against the system's lib #7609
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+- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
+  library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
+  Python.
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 - Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
   found.