[3.8] bpo-41100: Support macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon Macs (#25806)

* bpo-41100: Support macOS 11 and Apple Silicon on Python 3.8

This is a partial backport of bpo-41100 changes `e8b1c038b14b5fc8120aab62c9bf5fb840274cb6` and `96d906b144e6e6aa96c5ffebecbcc5d38034bbda` for Python 3.8. We introduce the ability to build Python from source for `arm64` on macOS, but we do not make a promise of support. This allows us to omit support for Universal2 binaries as well as weak-linking of symbols from the macOS SDK based on the deployment target, which are larger changes much more difficult to merge.

This also includes a backport of subsequent bpo-42688 change `7e729978fa08a360cbf936dc215ba7dd25a06a08` to fix build errors with external `libffi`.

* bpo-41116: Ensure system supplied libraries are found on macOS 11 (GH-23301) (GH-23455)

On macOS system provided libraries are in a shared library cache
and not at their usual location. This PR teaches distutils to search
in the SDK, even if there was no "-sysroot" argument in
the compiler flags.
(cherry picked from commit 404a719b5127602c1a948f8e189ab61cd3f147d8)

* bpo-42504: fix for MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11 (GH-23556)

macOS releases numbering has changed as of macOS 11 Big Sur.  Previously, major releases were of the form 10.x, 10.x+1, 10.x+2, etc; as of Big Sur, they are now x, x+1, etc, so, for example, 10.15, 10.15.1, ..., 10.15.7, 11, 11.0.1, 11.1, ..., 12, 12.1, etc. Allow Python to build with single-digit deployment target values. Patch provided by FX Coudert.
(cherry picked from commit 5291639e611dc3f55a34666036f2c3424648ba50)

* bpo-42504: Ensure that get_config_var('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') is a string (GH-24341) (GH-24410)

* bpo-42504: Ensure that get_config_var('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') is a string
(cherry picked from commit 49926cf2bcc8b44d9b8f148d81979ada191dd9d5)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
Co-authored-by: FX Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Max Bélanger <aeromax@gmail.com>

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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index d4a9ee7..6c30ac1 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -2273,3 +2273,25 @@ IPv4 address sent from the remote server when setting up a passive data
 channel.  We reuse the ftp server IP address instead.  For unusual code
 requiring the old behavior, set a ``trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address``
 attribute on your FTP instance to ``True``.  (See :issue:`43285`)
+
+Notable changes in Python 3.8.10
+================================
+
+macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) and Apple Silicon Mac support
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+As of 3.8.10, Python now supports building and running on macOS 11
+(Big Sur) and on Apple Silicon Macs (based on the ``ARM64`` architecture).
+A new universal build variant, ``universal2``, is now available to natively
+support both ``ARM64`` and ``Intel 64`` in one set of executables.
+Note that support for "weaklinking", building binaries targeted for newer
+versions of macOS that will also run correctly on older versions by
+testing at runtime for missing features, is not included in this backport
+from Python 3.9; to support a range of macOS versions, continue to target
+for and build on the oldest version in the range.
+
+(Originally contributed by Ronald Oussoren and Lawrence D'Anna in :issue:`41100`,
+with fixes by FX Coudert and Eli Rykoff, and backported to 3.8 by Maxime Bélanger
+and Ned Deily)
+
+