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Before this goes any farther, let me make this clear - I *did not* develop this patch. It was developed by the OpenSUSE folks. I had trouble installing Python from source on the OpenSUSE system under my desk at work. I asked about the problem on python-list@python.org. Someone directed me to this open bug report. I saw the reference to the patch, applied it, and installed. I verified that the installed Python executable now works as I expected, and reported that. That is all I did. Various responses seem to suggest that people think I wrote the patch. I did not. I didn't even look at the contents of the patch before applying it. I regenerated it relative to the current hg trunk simply because when I first applied it, a couple chunks were applied with offsets.
If my feedback is not sufficient to help move this bug report forward, my apologies. I know next to nothing about writing configure scripts, let alone the right way to do that. I don't mess around at this level of things any more. Haven't in at least a decade. I don't know what a host macro is. I have never used --libdir. If people are looking to me to correct the flaws in this patch, they are likely going to wait for awhile.