$PYTHONFRAMEWORK.

[ 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.

and modules by configuring with the --enable-profiling flag.

of hard linking against the framework).

If $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set, and >= 10.3, during configure we
setup extensions to link with dynamic lookup. We also record the
value in the Makefile.

Distutils checks whether a value for MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET was
recorded in the Makefile, and if it was insists that the current
value matches.

This is only a partial fix because it only applies to 2.4, and the
"two python problem" exists with Python 2.3 shipped with MacOSX 10.3,
which we have no influence over.

Backported to 2.3.

getaddrinfo() properly if the KAME stack had SCTP support.
(Submitted by SUZUKI Shinsuke)

Fixes SF Bug #850981

time.strptime().

(SF Patch #888148, reviewed by loewis)

Remove unused and unnecessary checks for sizeof(char).

two framework builds (in /Library and /System/Library) to coexist
with distutils linking against the right one.

Should be backported to 2.3, but getting Apple-supplied Python to pick
up these fixes is going to be non-trivial.

_XOPEN_SOURCE on AIX 4.

define _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE, the bug isn't triggered. Testing on
FreeBSD shows that nothing is broken by this change.

also applied to release23-maint.

Note that aclocal.m4 can go away when autoconf 2.58 is out.

Added test whether wchar_t is signed or not. A signed wchar_t is not usable as internal unicode type base for Py_UNICODE since the unicode implementation assumes an unsigned type.

if configured --without-threads. Backported to 2.3.

Will backport to 2.2.

which still supports shared extensions. It takes advantage the latest
Cygwin binutils (i.e., 20030901-1) which can export symbols from
executables:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00002.html

Additionally, it finally lays to rest the following mailing list
subthread:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/102500.html

I tested the patch under Red Hat Linux 8.0 too

This makes test_coercion pass on Panther.

Also added a note to NEWS that pythonw works again (it was broken in rc1).

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.

supports pthreads