From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 06:29:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: describe the change merged in r66285
X-Git-Tag: v3.0rc1~69
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=207f2113d87d226147ed559de86f116c4cc6f6f3;p=python

describe the change merged in r66285
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cacbef4780..198e266aeb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - bytes(o) now tries to use o.__bytes__() before using fallbacks.
 
+- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
+  that may be required when linking against readline.  This fixes issues
+  with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
+
 C API
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