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| author | Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com> | 2016-09-17 06:25:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com> | 2016-09-17 06:25:24 (GMT) |
| commit | f40d4ddff3c800b3c956a5e8820aabe3aa87cddd (patch) | |
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Closes #27979: Remove bundled copy of libffi
An installed copy of libffi is now required for building _ctypes on
any platform but OSX and Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 0b54019..91c6cc1 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ Optimizations Build and C API Changes ======================= +* A full copy of libffi is no longer bundled for use when building the + :mod:`_ctypes <ctypes>` module on non-OSX UNIX platforms. An installed copy + of libffi is now required when building ``_ctypes`` on such platforms. + Contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`27979`. Deprecated |