This inappropriately disabled some capabilities which exist.

Now test for readline in -lreadline, if not found there, try it
in -ltermcap only if not in -lreadline.  If both libraries are
required, there will need to be more work, but I'm not sure
under what conditions both libraries would be required.

(calling ftell(stdin) doesn't seem defined).  So we won't test errors
from ftell unless we can do it portably.

ftell(3) on BSD doesn't set errno even for ttys and returns useless
values.

add st_gen, st_birthtime.

when the member is available on the platform. (Contributed by
Diego Petteno)

detection to configure &c.

Will backport to 2.3.

discussed recently in python-dev:

In _locale module:

- bind_textdomain_codeset() binding

In gettext module:

- bind_textdomain_codeset() function
- lgettext(), lngettext(), ldgettext(), ldngettext(),
  which return translated strings encoded in
  preferred system encoding, if
  bind_textdomain_codeset() was not used.
- Added equivalent functionality in translate()
  function and catalog classes.

Every change was also documented.

[ 960406 ] unblock signals in threads

although the changes do not correspond exactly to any patch attached to
that report.

Non-main threads no longer have all signals masked.

A different interface to readline is used.

The handling of signals inside calls to PyOS_Readline is now rather
different.

These changes are all a bit scary!  Review and cross-platform testing
much appreciated.

Fixes SF Bug #850981

time.strptime().

(SF Patch #888148, reviewed by loewis)

Remove BAD_EXEC_PROTOYPE (leftover from IRIX 4 demolition).

Remove unused and unnecessary checks for sizeof(char).

Cygwin's pthread_sigmask() implementation appears to be buggy. This
patch works around this problem by using sigprocmask() instead.

This patch is implemented in a general way so it could be used by other
platforms too. If this approach is deemed too risky, then I can work up
a patch that just hacks Python/thread_pthread.h for Cygwin.

Note that I tested this patch against 2.3c1 under Red Hat Linux 8.0 too.

[snip]
And finally, I need someone to regenerate pyconfig.h.in and configure
with the same versions of the autotools that are normally used by
Python.

Neal kindly regenerated pyconfig.h.in and configure for me.

scope of the _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE symbols, including:
- getloadavg()
- typedefs for u_int, u_long, u_char, u_short, ushort & uint

These are now all defined under the control of a __BSD_VISIBLE symbol.

The lack of the typedefs causes several extension modules to build
incorrectly or not at all, and is the cause of failures reported for
test_socket and test_tempfile on this platform
(see python-dev: 29/6/03, pieterb@gewis.nl, "Running tests on freebsd5")

This change does not appear to be needed in the 2.2 branch.

TIOCGPGRP and many other definitions come from bsdtty.h, so it needs
to be included at least on HPUX.

be taken, and define NI_MAX{HOST|SERV} if necessary.

can be taken, and use _SC_PAGE_SIZE if getpagesize is not available.

Otherwise, the 2 devices seem to work the same for allocating a pseudo-tty.