[New-bugs-announce] [issue7609] Add --with-system-expat option

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis]

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever.FTA at GMail.Com>:

`configure` should support --with-system-expat option (similarly to --
internal copy of expat. It will be useful for some distributions (e.g.
Gentoo), which prefer to use system libraries instead internal copies.

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components: Build
files: python-system-expat.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 97074
nosy: Arfrever
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add --with-system-expat option
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15707/python-system-expat.patch

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