[Python-Dev] problems with SUSv2 compatibility defines

[Sjoerd Mullender]

One of the big problems with configure is that the defines that are
used to test features are not necessarily the same as the defines that
are used when those features are actually used in the program being
configured.

Python's configure script tests for altzone, and if the defines in
effect there were the same as the ones in effect during compilation,
altzone would not have been found and the compilation would have gone
smoothly.

I don't have a solution for this problem, but a problem it is.

-- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd.mullender@oratrix.com>