Comment 2 for bug 385453

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 385453] Re: make dist should fail if C files don't exist or can't be built

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Note that the 1.15 & 1.15.1 releases included all C files except for
> _walkdirs_win32.c.
>
> The underlying problem that caused this will need to be fixed before
> this bug can be fixed.
>

So we only build win32 on win32, and readdir on POSIX platforms.

*If* we split out generating the .c files from building the extensions,
then we could build all .c files. (See earlier comments about separating
out a 'pyrexc' step from the build process.)

John
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