Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).

to be used for flags that change binary compatibility.

Distutils was tweaked to also use the variable if used during compilation of
the interpreter.

Delete some advice that can never, ever have worked.

There are a couple of XXX comments for bits I don't know how to
update.  It would be really good not to release Python 2.5 with these
in place :)

This file is way too big.  There's basically no chance of it staying
up to date.

Closes SF bug #774480.

the wiki instead.

notes.

bsddb module build note to reflect the inclusion of bsddb3 and the demotion
of the old bsddb module.

of egcs. Fixes #635929. Backported to 2.2.3.