Thus spake Ty Sarna
> In article <m12OKBX-000AedC@druid.net>,
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <tech-pkg@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > suppose we better do something.  I have sent the following message to
> > comp.lang.python to see if anyone knows why they did it the way they did.
> 
> BTW, "they" is *me*, who is also the listed maintainer on the package...

Oh?  I did a make clean followed by make extract and looked at the
configure script and that code is what I saw.  Do you mean you were
the one who submitted the change to the Python folks?

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