[issue5545] multiprocessing: switch to autoconf detection of platform values

[Jesse Noller]

New submission from Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>:

See mail thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087418.html

And Christian's checkin to the back port:
http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/source/detail?r=64#

Need to take into the account information here (for my own notes):
http://bugs.python.org/issue5400
http://bugs.python.org/issue3876
http://bugs.python.org/msg83495
http://bugs.python.org/issue3110

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assignee: jnoller
messages: 84019
nosy: christian.heimes, jnoller
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: multiprocessing: switch to autoconf detection of platform values
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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