From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:28:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a line explaining what env var to use to set the compiler flags and an
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~1811
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a267563f439763bc955daafaa0563b3194945fc3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add a line explaining what env var to use to set the compiler flags and an
example of how to do it so that it is passed directly to ./configure .
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diff --git a/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt b/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt
index 1919e66f6efa..39dc1cb7c2b0 100644
--- a/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt
+++ b/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 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``.
+
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Py_REF_DEBUG                                              introduced in 1.4
                                                  named REF_DEBUG before 1.4