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Fri May 5 23:59:10 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/064887.html

Luke Dunstan wrote:
> OK. Actually I think distutils will be the last thing to be ported because 
> it is not necessary for using the rest of Python. Does distutils has support 
> for cross-compiling anyway?

No, it doesn't.

> OK, but what about ANSI C headers like signal.h? I expected HAVE_SIGNAL_H to 
> exist already but I just came across this patch:
> 
> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/pyconfig.h.in?rev=35255&r1=35221&r2=35255
> 
> I am guessing that the reason for this patch was to reduce the number of 
> #ifdefs in the Python source to ease maintenance. Would you want to add some 
> of them back again?

Yes. with a record what system (and version) requires them, so we can
remove them again when the system becomes unsupported.

Regards,

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