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authorChristian Heimes <christian@python.org>2021-12-04 16:14:48 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-12-04 15:14:48 +0100
commit64be8d369b7e3878078dbef466804ae8be49c1cf (patch)
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downloadcpython-git-64be8d369b7e3878078dbef466804ae8be49c1cf.tar.gz
bpo-45847: Update whatsnew and add place holder entries for missing extensions (GH-29914)
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@@ -583,13 +583,12 @@ Build Changes
(Contributed by Brett Cannon and Christian Heimes in :issue:`45548`,
:issue:`45570`, :issue:`45571`, and :issue:`43974`.)
-* The build dependencies for :mod:`zlib`, :mod:`bz2`, and :mod:`lzma` are now
- detected by :program:`configure`.
- (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`45763`.)
-
-* Build dependencies for :mod:`dbm` are now detected by :program:`configure`.
- ``libdb`` 3.x and 4.x are no longer supported.
- (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`45747`.)
+* Build dependencies, compiler flags, and linker flags for most stdlib
+ extension modules are now detected by :program:`configure`. libffi, libnsl,
+ libsqlite3, zlib, bzip2, liblzma, libcrypt, and uuid flags are detected by
+ ``pkg-config`` (when available).
+ (Contributed by Christian Heimes and Erlend Egeberg Aasland in
+ :issue:`bpo-45847`, :issue:`45747`, and :issue:`45763`.)
* CPython now has experimental support for cross compiling to WebAssembly
platform ``wasm32-emscripten``. The effort is inspired by previous work