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  r69342 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-06 02:15:51 +0100 (Fri, 06 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #1520877: now distutils reads Read  from the environment/Makefile
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 Library
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+- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the 
+  environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
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 - Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
   distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.