On OS X, use os.uname() instead of gestalt.sysv(...) to get the
operating system version. This allows to use ctypes when Python
was configured with --disable-toolbox-glue.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4492590..99d9249 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -272,6 +272,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
+ --disable-toolbox-glue
+
- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised