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+- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
+ --with-system-ffi flag is used.
+
 - Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
   library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
   Python.