The cygwinccompiler.py module for distutils on Pythons 2.5 and 2.4 fails
with an exception for the latest MinGW tools.

running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 224, in <module>
    setup(**PACKAGEDATA)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 186, in run
    build_ext.run(self)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 264,
in run
    force=self.force)
  File "C:\prg\pygame\trunk_\mingw32distutils.py", line 31, in new_compiler
    return Mingw32DefaultCCompiler (None, dry_run, force)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 292, in
__init__

    CygwinCCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose, dry_run, force)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 84, in
__init__
    get_versions()
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 424, in
get_vers
ions
    ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
    self.parse(vstring)
  File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
    raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '2.18.50.20080109'

For instance "ld -v" now returns "GNU ld (GNU Binutils)
2.18.50.20080109", not "GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060824". The extra
period between the version number and date causes class StrictVersion to
raise a ValueError. A fix is to alter the regular expressions in
cygwinccompiler.get_versions().

This enclosed patch to cygwinccompiler.py has been tested with the
current and previous linker as well as gcc 4.2.1 and gcc 3.4.5.