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

I need to copy the xxmodule.c file in other tests, so I moved the
support code to distutils.tests.support and improved it:
- don’t skip when run from the Lib/distutils/tests directory
- use proper skip machinery instead of custom print/return/test suite
  fiddling.

I also took out the fixup_build_ext function, which is needed for tests
to pass on Unix shared builds and Windows debug builds.

Finally, I cleaned up a few things:
- don’t remove directories in tearDown when the parent class’ tearDown
  has already registered the directories for removal
- simplify restoration of sys.path
- remove a few unused names found by pyflakes.

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

This is a regression introduced in 9211a5d7d0b4, when uses of ST_MTIME
constants were changed to uses of st_mtime attributes.  As diagnosed in
the bug report, this change is not merely stylistic: st_mtime is a
float but ST_MTIME’s resolution is rounded to the seconds, so there was
a mismatch between the values seen by file_util and dep_util which
caused an sdist to be unnecessarily created a second time on an ext4
filesystem.

This patch has been tested by John S. Gruber, who reported the bug.
As this is a simple code revert, I think it’s okay to commit without a
unit test.

The changed behavior of sdist in 2.7 broke packaging for projects that
wanted to use a manually-maintained MANIFEST file (instead of having a
MANIFEST.in template and letting distutils generate the MANIFEST).

The fixes that were committed for #8688 (d29399100973 by Tarek and
f7639dcdffc3 by me) did not fix all issues exposed in the bug report,
and also added one problem: the MANIFEST file format gained comments,
but the read_manifest method was not updated to handle (i.e. ignore)
them.  This changeset should fix everything; the tests have been
expanded and I successfully tested with Mercurial, which suffered from
this regression.

I have grouped the versionchanged directives for these bugs in one place
and added micro version numbers to help users know the quirks of the
exact version they’re using.  I also removed a stanza in the docs that
was forgotten in Tarek’s first changeset.

Initial report, thorough diagnosis and patch by John Dennis, further
work on the patch by Stephen Thorne, and a few edits and additions by
me.

set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET env variable for the interpreter process
on OS X.  This could cause failures in non-distutils subprocesses and was
unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
environment after distutils set it.  Instead, have distutils set the
the deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess.

Continue to use the previous algorithm for deriving the deployment target
value:
    if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is not set in the interpreter's env:
        use the interpreter build configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
    elif the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET env value >= configure value:
        use the env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
    else: # env value less than interpreter build configure value
        raise exception
This allows building extensions that can only run on newer versions of
the OS than the version python was built for, for example with a python
built for 10.3 or later and an extension that needs to be built for 10.5.

test_build_ext.

test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
run outside of a build directory.

The tests now pass all combinations of -O/-OO and -B.  See also #7071
and #6292 for previous variations on the same theme.

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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  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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