message:

Cross-port changes for 2.6.7rc2 from the Subversion branch.

message:

Reconcile with the 2.6svn branch.  The 2.6.7 release will be made from
Subversion, but there were differences, so this brings them in sync.  These
changes should *not* propagate to any newer versions.

Without this patch python will fail to start properly when the environment
variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set on MacOSX and has a value that is
not compatible with the value during Python's build. This is caused by code
in sysconfig that was only meant to be used in disutils.

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To comply with the 2.x doc style, the methods in trace.rst use brackets around
optional arguments.  The rest is a mostly straight merge, modulo support changed
to test_support and use of the old super call style in test_tuple.

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  r86236 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:44:43 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Make sure each test can be run standalone (./python Lib/distutils/tests/x.py)
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  Prevent ResourceWarnings in test_gettext
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  r86332 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 19:15:17 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 4 lines

  Add missing NEWS entry for a fix committed by Senthil.

  All recent modifications to distutils should now be covered in NEWS.
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  r86340 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 22:48:23 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  This was actually fixed for the previous alpha.
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  r87271 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:09:58 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Improve trace documentation (#9264).  Patch by Eli Bendersky.
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  r87273 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:30:15 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Use nested method directives, rewrap long lines, fix whitespace.
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  r87447 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-23 20:13:05 +0100 (jeu., 23 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in superclass method name
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  r87280 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 22:07:22 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix build_ext with VS 8.0.  Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto (#9558).
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  r87277 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 21:26:30 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix wrong name in docstring and doc (#10693).  Original patch by Eli Benderski.
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  r86596 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-20 21:04:17 +0200 (Sat, 20 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
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In 2.7, there was only one NameError.

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  r86601 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-20 20:35:27 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix two NameErrors in distutils (#10407)
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  r86605 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-20 20:37:28 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Add entry for r86601
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  r86438 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-12 23:25:23 +0100 (ven., 12 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  And now for something completely different: Finish fixing #10252 again.
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  r86274 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 16:57:52 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Correct the fix for #10252: Popen objects have no close method.
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  r86276 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 19:03:52 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix #10252 again (hopefully definitely).  Patch by Brian Curtin.
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This was overlooked in r80804.  This change is not really a bug fix,
but the release manager agreed to it.  There is no NEWS entry, like
in the original commit.

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  r86244 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 05:48:05 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils.  Patch by Arfrever on #9281.
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  r86223 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:51:56 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Always close files in distutils code and tests (#10252).
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  r86224 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:58:34 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Add missing entry for r86223.
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  r86226 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:59:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Of course, I forgot one file in r86223.
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  r86234 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:10:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Also close file descriptors from os.popen and subprocess.Popen
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with and without --enable-shared on Ubuntu 10.10.  Hopefully this finally
solves bug 10126.  Will check 3.1 and py3k next.

directory to the shared library.  test_distutils now passes when
Python was built with --enable-shared.

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  r85353 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-10-10 11:37:12 +0200 (dim., 10 oct. 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
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  r84889 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-19 08:39:54 +0530 (Sun, 19 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Update the test_distutils mode test to test with umask value properly.
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  r84871 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-18 08:25:03 +0530 (Sat, 18 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Skip the distutils mode test on Windows OS.
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  r84861 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-17 22:05:37 +0530 (Fri, 17 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue2236: Distutils' mkpath implementation ignoring the "mode" parameter
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  r84765 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 16:18:30 +0900 | 2 lines

  get_build_version() is needed even where sys.platform != "win32".
  Try to fix buildbot error in other way.
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  r84753 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 07:55:40 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #9313: Skips test_remove_visual_c_ref on old MSVC.
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  r84760 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 14:36:21 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #9313: Use unittest.skipUnless to skip old MSVC.
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  r84711 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-11 17:28:56 +0200 (sam., 11 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in option name
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  r84680 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-10 21:44:44 +0200 (ven., 10 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
  be built as a shared library.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
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  r84614 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 02:00:45 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 5 lines

  Follow-up to #9199: Fix str.join use, add newlines.

  Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
  --show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.
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  r84611 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 01:08:57 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix incorrect use of Command.announce (#9199)
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  r84608 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 00:11:52 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix eon-old bug in build_clib options (#1718574)
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  r83993 | eric.araujo | 2010-08-14 04:30:34 +0200 (sam., 14 août 2010) | 2 lines

  Use a marker in generated MANIFEST files, don't touch files without it. Fixes #8688.
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