sdist used to crash with a full traceback dump instead of printing a
nice warning with the faulty line number.

- First, support.fixup_build_ext (already used to set proper
  library_dirs value under Unix shared builds) gains the ability to
  correctly set the debug attribute under Windows debug builds.

- Second, the filename for the extension module gets a _d suffix under
  debug builds.

- Third, the test code properly puts our customized build_ext object
  into an internal dictionary to make sure that the install command will
  later use our object instead of re-creating one.  That’s the downside
  of using low-level APIs in our test code: we have to manually push
  knobs and turn handles that would otherwise be handled behind the
  scenes.

Thanks to Nadeem for the testing.

- First, support.fixup_build_ext (already used to set proper
  library_dirs value under Unix shared builds) gains the ability to
  correctly set the debug attribute under Windows debug builds.

- Second, the filename for the extension module gets a _d suffix under
  debug builds.

- Third, the test code properly puts our customized build_ext object
  into an internal dictionary to make sure that the install command will
  later use our object instead of re-creating one.  That’s the downside
  of using low-level APIs in our test code: we have to manually push
  knobs and turn handles that would otherwise be handled behind the
  scenes.

Thanks to Nadeem for the testing.

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

I need this to fix the failing test_install.

 * Use str.startswith(tuple): I didn't know this Python feature, Python rocks!
 * Replace sometimes sys.platform.startswith('linux') with
   sys.platform == 'linux'
 * sys.platform doesn't contain the major version on Cygwin on Mac OS X
   (it's just 'cygwin' and 'darwin')

I made a note a month ago that install --record wrote incorrect entries
for extension modules (I think the problem was that the first character
of the file was stripped), so I’m now adding a test to try to reproduce
that in the current versions.

I made a note a month ago that install --record wrote incorrect entries
for extension modules (I think the problem was that the first character
of the file was stripped), so I’m now adding a test to try to reproduce
that in the current versions.