- On systems which build using the configure script, compiler flags which

used to be lumped together using the OPT flag have been split into two

groups, OPT and BASECFLAGS. OPT is meant to carry just optimization- and

debug-related flags like "-g" and "-O3". BASECFLAGS is meant to carry

compiler flags that are required to get a clean compile. On some

platforms (many Linux flavors in particular) BASECFLAGS will be empty by

default. On others, such as Mac OS X and SCO, it will contain required

flags. This change allows people building Python to override OPT without

fear of clobbering compiler flags which are required to get a clean build.

- On Darwin/Mac OS X platforms, /sw/lib and /sw/include are added to the

relevant search lists in setup.py. This allows users building Python to

take advantage of the many packages available from the fink project

<http://fink.sf.net/>.

- A new Makefile target, scriptsinstall, installs a number of useful scripts

from the Tools/scripts directory.