On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:31:38PM +0000, J??rg Prante wrote:
> 
> J??rg Prante <joergprante@gmx.de> added the comment:
> 
> > Without knowing the impact of the generic approach you've taken
> > in your patch we simply cannot just apply it. If you can prove that
> > the patch doesn't break other platforms or configuration setups,
> > that would help a lot.
> 
> I was able to build Python 2.5 on Solaris 10 Sparc, Mac OS X PPC, Linux
> PPC/Intel, all 32bit and 64bit, shared and static, only with Bob's help.

Ditto for python 2.5 on Solaris 10 x86 64-bit.  It was simply
impossible without these patches. 

> It's not a proof. It's not mathematical correct. But it works. Grab all
> your avalaible test platforms and try for yourself what Bob's patch will
> 'break', and report it. 
>
> Sorry, but that meta discussions about correct builds are not what a bug
> report should be used for. Such improvements are up to developer forums
> where you can design "correct" Python build scripts and discuss them
> over and over again.

Agreed. +1 from me if it counts for anything (which it probably doesn't).

-Peter