From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:02:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3988
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b3db551beaa3961a5b931c857e208226f7f8e8b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless
except in the hands of experts.  Will backport to 2.2.2.
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 175d16a8203d..04f7876d060e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -499,10 +499,13 @@ Tools/Demos
 Build
 -----
 
+- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
+  except in the hands of experts.
+
 - The public Python C API will generally be declared using PyAPI_FUNC
-   and PyAPI_DATA macros, while Python extension module init functions
-   will be declared with PyMODINIT_FUNC.  DL_EXPORT/DL_IMPORT macros
-   are deprecated.
+  and PyAPI_DATA macros, while Python extension module init functions
+  will be declared with PyMODINIT_FUNC.  DL_EXPORT/DL_IMPORT macros
+  are deprecated.
 
 - 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.