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--with-pydebug: Enable additional debugging code to help track down
memory management problems. This allows printing a list of all
live objects when the interpreter terminates.
+
+--with(out)-universal-newlines: enable reading of text files with
+ foreign newline convention (default: enabled). In other words,
+ any of \r, \n or \r\n is acceptable as end-of-line character.
+ If enabled import and execfile will automatically accept any newline
+ in files. Python code can open a file with open(file, 'U') to
+ read it in universal newline mode.
Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature)