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| author | Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com> | 2016-09-10 00:01:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com> | 2016-09-10 00:01:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 935043d1ac19d07ac48233c6175250e66a7bbebd (patch) | |
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Closes #27976: Deprecate bundled full copy of libffi
Builds on non-OSX UNIX now default to using the system libffi, and warn if the
bundled copy is used.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index ec2f2e0..d3dd337 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -1010,6 +1010,16 @@ Build and C API Changes Deprecated ========== +Deprecated Build Options +------------------------ + +The ``--with-system-ffi`` configure flag is now on by default on non-OSX UNIX +platforms. It may be disabled by using ``--without-system-ffi``, but using the +flag is deprecated and will not be accepted in Python 3.7. OSX is unaffected +by this change. Note that many OS distributors already use the +``--with-system-ffi`` flag when building their system Python. + + New Keywords ------------ |