From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:51:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #9516: Update Misc/NEWS.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.2rc1~188^2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=657b2de893a206dbcc3d34baa65f6cfda11726e5;p=python

Issue #9516: Update Misc/NEWS.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a8c607936c..834dea6487 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
+  check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
+  interpreter process.  This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
+  and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
+  environment after Distutils set it.  Instead, have Distutils set the the
+  deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess.  It is
+  still possible to globally override the default by setting
+  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
+  greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
+  was built.
+
 - Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
   Kitada.