Backported to 2.4.

binary file, use 'rb'!

defined in the makefile. Get CFLAGS from the Makefile, instead of
getting OPT, BASE_CFLAGS and EXTRA_CFLAGS individually.

to be used for flags that change binary compatibility.

Distutils was tweaked to also use the variable if used during compilation of
the interpreter.

properly encoded and include the encoding in the Content-Type header.

work (SyntaxErrors at compile time).

I slammed in what looked like the obvious fixes, but someone who
understands this file should check my work.

so that bdist_wininst can specify 'any'.

outputs with the distribution object.

- fix indentation to conform to the Python style guide
- add more tests and documentation

added support for the provides, requires, and obsoletes metadata fields

Bug #1160802:  Can't build Zope on Windows w/ 2.4.1c1.

MSVCCompiler.initialize():  set self.initialized to True, as suggested
by AMK.  Else we keep growing the PATH endlessly, with each new C
extension built, until putenv() complains.

No change to NEWS because the patch that created this bug is also new
for 2.5a1 (so there's no change here to any code yet released from HEAD).

to build. Will backport to 2.4

Will backport myself.

to make using "-undefined dynamic_lookup" for linking extensions more
automatic on 10.3 and later. So if we're on that platform and
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is not set we now set it to the current OSX
version during configure. Additionally, distutils will pick up the
configure-time value by default.

Will backport.

This patch offers a better explanation in case the MS VC++ (free)
toolkit is installed but the .NET Framework SDK is not.

info will always be in a .pdb file.