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Actually it was HAVE_GETADDRINFO and HAVE_DLOPEN. 
To keep autoheader from complaing.  You could leave that
part out, 
but if you added another function to AC_CHECK_FUNCTS
and ran autoreconf,  pyconfig.h would not be updated.

Why does dlopen fail?  SCO is strange.  I noticed if the
test
program was compiled without -belf it worked. That's the
part
of the patch I like least but iit makes python run on SCO

Why -Kpic? That's what the man page says.

why do the modules pwd,grp,...
For some bizare reason it can't find some functions that are
in libc.so

Please don't modify Setup.local: this is a hand-edited file.
configure creates this file if it does not exist.
I chose to populate it on SCO with the entries to get
a working python on SCO.  If Setup.local exists, it will not
be modified as was the case before the patch.

Why do you remove 'unixware5' from regrtest.py?
The configue.in changes make it unixware7 (which matches
Lib/plat-unixware7)