Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> So distutils is now required to build python?
> Yes, the python docs imply that it is a reasonable expectation.
FWIW, CVS tip still builds --with-python on my pretty-nearly-stock
RHL 8.0 box, so distutils was standard a couple years ago ...
regards, tom lane