This was done in r80805 (#7908) and erroneously brought back by the
distutils revert.  This commit removes more code than the original,
which was uncomplete.  There is no NEWS entry, like in r80805.

during the build from setup.py.

handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
ASCII.

with and without --enable-shared on Ubuntu 10.10.  Hopefully this finally
solves bug 10126.  Will check 3.1 next.

Fixes bug #10126 for Python 3.2 by using $RUNSHARED to find the
directory to the shared library.  test_distutils now passes when
Python was built with --enable-shared (Barry didn’t have the error
but I did).

* Expose the build flags to Python as sys.abiflags
* Shared library libpythonX.Y<abiflags>.so
* python-config --abiflags
* Make two distutils tests that failed with --enable-shared (even before this
  patch) succeed.
* Fix a few small style issues.

Try to fix buildbot error in other way.

be built as a shared library.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.

Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
--show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/103408.html

#8292: Fix three instances of truth tests on return values of filter() (which is always true in Python 3).

in distutils.sysconfig matches that in the
toplevel sysconfig module.

Without this patch universal builds on OSX are
broken.

Als add a test that checks that the two version
of get_config_vars agree on important values.

reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.

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  r82272 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-06-27 14:36:16 +0200 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 8 lines

  Two small fixes for the support for SDKs on MacOSX:

  1) The code that checks if an path should be located in the SDK
     explicitly excludes /usr/local. This fixes issue9046

  2) The SDK variant for filtering "db_dirs_to_check" in setup.py
     was not doing anything because of a missing assignment.
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  r82130 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-21 10:27:46 -0500 (Mon, 21 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  fix finding visual studio 2008 on 64 bit #8854
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will fail when builddir != srcdir (that is, when you
run configure in a directory that is not the top of
the source tree).