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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2005-04-24 22:26:38 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2005-04-24 22:26:38 (GMT)
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Introduced EXTRA_CFLAGS as an environment variable used by the Makefile. Meant
to be used for flags that change binary compatibility. Distutils was tweaked to also use the variable if used during compilation of the interpreter.
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This file describes some special Python build types enabled via
compile-time preprocessor defines.
-It is best to define these options in the OPT environment variable;
-``OPT="-DPy_REF_DEBUG" ./configure``. If you want the default values of
-OPT to also be included you will need to add them in yourself manually.
+It is best to define these options in the EXTRA_FLAGS environment variable;
+``EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DPy_REF_DEBUG" ./configure``.
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Py_REF_DEBUG introduced in 1.4