From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:03:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport of 1.489:
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~113
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0dddf305a67763dd5cce755a4ece7f5f21c2edf4;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport of 1.489:

Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless
except in the hands of experts.
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a1ff3316ec52..ae3a91960336 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ Library
 
 Build
 
+- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
+  except in the hands of experts.
+
 - A bug was fixed that could cause COUNT_ALLOCS builds to segfault, or
   get into infinite loops, when a new-style class got garbage-collected.
   Unfortunately, to avoid this, the way COUNT_ALLOCS works requires