need this any more and apparently it screws up their configuration.

where Make doesn't know that '#' as a command is a comment.

it seems harmless for other platforms.  It plays tricks with the name
of the library used to link with.  Apparently DG/UX really wants a
shared library to link with if it wants shared modules to use symbols
from the library.  I'm not sure why this wasn't an issue with 1.4;
DG/UX seems to be the only platform where moving to a single library
made things harder!

BTW This adds a target to create libpython$(VERSION).so; however this
target is *only* for DG/UX.

- add test for strptime (not used by the core but needed by Marc Lemburg's
Date object).

- Test for GNU ld on Solaris; need to add an extra linker option to
export symbols in that case.

enabled.  This is done through a substitution in Modules/Setup.thread(.in).
Bill Janssen will be happy.  The original idea was by Lele Gaifax (though
I changed the implementation to use a separate file).

(big surprise), and FreeBSD has pthread support in -lc_r -- maybe NetBSD
has too.

from the main program to shared libraries.  On mklinux, the old
'-rdynamic' doesn't work; the new '-Xlinker -export-dynamic' works
both there and on Intel Linux platforms.

code had the assignments switched around).

Also rename sharedmodules to lib-dynload.

instead it is added to MACHDEPPATH in Modules/Setup.in

when building outside the source directory.  Courtesy Donn Cave.

-D_HPUX_SOURCE"' on HP 9.x and 10.x platforms.

Remove some unneeded AC_SUBST() calls.

with Sun's cc, the compile succeeds, but the link fails).

Test for IRIX*/6* instead of for IRIX/6* -- on 64-bit IRIX systems,
uname returns IRIX64.

No idea if this actually works...

the value at configure time of the SGI_ABI environment variable.  See
abi(5).

*final* linker argument.  This implies --with-thread.

Reimplemented --with-threads as an alias for --with-thread.