The native bz2 tests worked fine for me under WinXP Pro + VC7.1, so

removed the comment saying they don't work, and changed the build step
to run them.  If they're failing for someone else, please give details
about what failed.

PCbuild/bz2.vcproj

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 	ProjectType="Visual C++"
 	Version="7.10"
 	Name="bz2"
+	RootNamespace="bz2"
 	SccProjectName="bz2"
 	SccLocalPath="..">
 	<Platforms>
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCPreLinkEventTool"
 				CommandLine="cd ..\..\bzip2-1.0.2
-nmake /nologo /f makefile.msc lib
+nmake /nologo /f makefile.msc
 "/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCResourceCompilerTool"

PCbuild/readme.txt

@@ -158,8 +158,6 @@ bz2
     If FC finds differences, see the warning abou WinZip above (when I
     first tried it, sample3.ref failed due to CRLF conversion).
 
-    # XXX: it fails with vc 7.1, so the tests are skipped for now.
-
     All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.2\libbz2.lib, which the Python
     project links in.