prevent binding for str from masking use of builtin str in nested
function.

(This is the only case I found in the standard library where a local
shadows a global or builtin.  There may be others, but the regression
test doesn't catch them.)

    Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py(build_ext.finalize_options): Add
    Cygwin specific code to append Python's library directory to the
    extension's list of library directories.

    (build_ext.get_libraries): Add Cygwin specific code to append Python's
    (import) library to the extension's list of libraries.

  This patch adds support for Cygwin to util.get_platform(). A Cygwin
  specific case is needed due to the format of Cygwin's uname command,
  which contains '/' characters.

sys.prefix + 'config/Makefile'. When building Python for the first
time, these files aren't there, so the files from the build tree have
to be used instead; this file adds an entry point for specifying that
the build tree files should be used.  (Perhaps 'set_python_build' should
should be preceded with an underscore?)

for done[n] can be integers as well as strings, but the code
concatenates them with strings (fixed by adding a str()) and calls
string.strip() on them (fixed by rearranging the logic)

(Presumably this wasn't noticed previously because parse_makefile()
was only called on Modules/Makefile, which contains no integer-valued
variables.)

produce a list of unique filenames:
    "While attempting to build an RPM using distutils on Python 2.0,
    rpm complained about duplicate files.  The following patch fixed
    that problem.

    prevent creating files such as build/lib.whatever/Modules/foo.o
    when given a source filename such as Modules/foo.c.

to the Distutils-SIG and archived at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-November/001755.html

   os.pathsep

    DISTUTILS_DEBUG set"

Use != instead of <> since <> is documented as "obsolescent".
Use "is" and "is not" when comparing with None or type objects.

use it to generate a dialog for users to specify the command-line (because
providing a command-line with MacPython is so awkward).

an 'other_libraries()' parameter.

we actually installed modules to a directory in sys.path.

This should close SF bug (patch)
http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=101844&group_id=5470

about how it would be nice to write absolute paths to the temporary
byte-compilation script, but this doesn't work because it screws up the
trailing-slash trickery done to 'prefix' in build_py's 'byte_compile()'
method.

Fixed to use 'execute()' instead of 'os.remove()' to remove the temporary
script: now it doesn't blow up in dry-run mode!

by default (since compiling at install time works just fine).  Details:
  - added 'compile' and 'optimize' options
  - added 'byte_compile()' method
  - changed 'get_outputs()' so it includes bytecode files
A lot of the code added is very similar to code in install_lib.py;
would be nice to factor it out further.

instruct the "install_lib" command from the command-line.

choice between (compile, no-compile) * (optimize=0, optimize=1,
optimize=2).  Details:
  - added --no-compile option to complement --compile, which has
    been there for ages
  - changed --optimize (which never worked) to a value option, which
    expects 0, 1, or 2
  - renamed 'bytecompile()' method to 'byte_compile()', and beefed
    it up to handle both 'compile' and 'optimize' options
  - fix '_bytecode_filenames()' to respect the new options

pure Python modules to compile.

blowing up.

'util.byte_compile()'.  Currently just reproduces the existing functionality
-- doesn't use any of the fancy features in the new 'byte_compile()'.

standard 'py_compile.compile()' function.  Laundry list of features:
  - handles standard Distutils 'force', 'verbose', 'dry_run' flags
  - handles various levels of optimization: can compile directly in
    this interpreter process, or write a temporary script that is
    then executed by a new interpreter with the appropriate flags
  - can rewrite the source filename by stripping an optional prefix
    and preprending an optional base dir.

Fixed 'subst_vars()' so it actually blows up like the docstring claims
  (and fixed the docstring not to claim it handles ${var}, which it
  doesn't).

absolute pathnames; this lets it keep working in the face of chdir'ing
around.