[Python-Dev] autoconfigure patch submitted on SourceForge

[Guido van Rossum]

> You may be right.  Still, this patch solves the immediate problem in a
> reasonably clean way, and I urge that it should go in.  We can do a
> more complete reorganization of the build process later.  (I'll help with
> that; I'm pretty expert with autoconf and friends.)

I expect Andrew's code to go in before 2.1 is released.  So I don't
see a reason why we should hurry and check in a stop-gap measure.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)