Issue #7408: Forward port limited test from Python 2.7, fixing failing buildbot tests on BSD-based platforms.

for module_search_path. It was already the case on _Py_char2wchar() failure.

Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore  ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of distutils2 changes.

_Py_char2wchar() to decode lib_python instead.

Some compilers don't support concatenating literals: L"wide" "bytes". Example:
IRIX compiler.

to int, password.len was checked for being smaller than INT_MAX.

on other OSes!

Py_ssize_t, not int

into a Py_ssize_t, instead of an int

char, n is in range [0; 255] (a tuple cannot have a negative length)

CryptGenRandom()

to int

Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group parameters to sdist command as found in Python 2.7 and originally slated for Python 3.2 but accidentally rolled back as part of the distutils2 rollback. Closes Issue #6516.

PATH_MAX is not declared on IRIX nor Windows.

PATH_MAX is not declared on IRIX nor Windows.

the size of the fullpath buffer, not PATH_MAX. fullpath is declared using
MAXPATHLEN or MAX_PATH depending on the OS, and PATH_MAX is not declared on
IRIX.

the fullpath buffer, not PATH_MAX. fullpath is declared using MAXPATHLEN or
MAX_PATH depending on the OS, and PATH_MAX is not declared on IRIX.

the size of the env_home buffer, not PATH_MAX+1. env_home is declared using
MAXPATHLEN+1, and PATH_MAX is not declared on IRIX.

the env_home buffer, not PATH_MAX+1. env_home is declared using MAXPATHLEN+1,
and PATH_MAX is not declared on IRIX.

failure

PyMapping_Values() with an exception set, exit immediatly on error.

failure