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authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2017-09-06 22:45:25 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-06 22:45:25 (GMT)
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Remove all mention of Windows IA-64 support (GH-3389)
It was mostly removed long ago.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/apiref.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/sysconfig.rst1
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index 622c7d1..7cde1a0 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -814,13 +814,13 @@ This module provides the :class:`UnixCCompiler` class, a subclass of
.. module:: distutils.msvccompiler
:synopsis: Microsoft Compiler
+.. XXX: This is *waaaaay* out of date!
This module provides :class:`MSVCCompiler`, an implementation of the abstract
:class:`CCompiler` class for Microsoft Visual Studio. Typically, extension
modules need to be compiled with the same compiler that was used to compile
Python. For Python 2.3 and earlier, the compiler was Visual Studio 6. For Python
-2.4 and 2.5, the compiler is Visual Studio .NET 2003. The AMD64 and Itanium
-binaries are created using the Platform SDK.
+2.4 and 2.5, the compiler is Visual Studio .NET 2003.
:class:`MSVCCompiler` will normally choose the right compiler, linker etc. on
its own. To override this choice, the environment variables *DISTUTILS_USE_SDK*
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
index bbd2a8c..dc3a50c 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
@@ -351,8 +351,8 @@ installed, you can use a 32bit version of Windows to create 64bit extensions
and vice-versa.
To build for an alternate platform, specify the :option:`!--plat-name` option
-to the build command. Valid values are currently 'win32', 'win-amd64' and
-'win-ia64'. For example, on a 32bit version of Windows, you could execute::
+to the build command. Valid values are currently 'win32', and 'win-amd64'.
+For example, on a 32bit version of Windows, you could execute::
python setup.py build --plat-name=win-amd64
diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
index 84f5646..9f549fb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ Other functions
Windows will return one of:
- win-amd64 (64bit Windows on AMD64 (aka x86_64, Intel64, EM64T, etc)
- - win-ia64 (64bit Windows on Itanium)
- win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned)
Mac OS X can return: