[Python-checkins] bpo-43774: Remove --without-cycle-gc doc (GH-25364)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2459b92a4db69d9b14d0a86a9b81cc075894e910
commit: 2459b92a4db69d9b14d0a86a9b81cc075894e910
branch: master
author: Victor Stinner <vstinner at python.org>
committer: pablogsal <Pablogsal at gmail.com>
date: 2021-04-12T16:58:45+01:00
summary:
bpo-43774: Remove --without-cycle-gc doc (GH-25364)
The configure --without-cycle-gc option has been removed in Python
2.3 by the commit cccd1e72481106b0a373117f32fda6261f3141a7. It's now
time to remove the last reference to it in the documentation.
files:
M Doc/extending/extending.rst
diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
index bc85a05ff2f85..561d1c616cc10 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
@@ -911,12 +911,7 @@ the cycle itself.
The cycle detector is able to detect garbage cycles and can reclaim them.
The :mod:`gc` module exposes a way to run the detector (the
:func:`~gc.collect` function), as well as configuration
-interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime. The cycle
-detector is considered an optional component; though it is included by default,
-it can be disabled at build time using the :option:`!--without-cycle-gc` option
-to the :program:`configure` script on Unix platforms (including Mac OS X). If
-the cycle detector is disabled in this way, the :mod:`gc` module will not be
-available.
+interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime.
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