Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless

except in the hands of experts. Will backport to 2.2.2.

Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless
except in the hands of experts. Will backport to 2.2.2.
20ebb55b · Guido van Rossum · ef7648f0 · 20ebb55b
Commit 20ebb55b authored Sep 25, 2002 by Guido van Rossum
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+- The fpectl module is not built by default; it's dangerous or useless
+  except in the hands of experts.
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 - 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.