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  r78707 | tarek.ziade | 2010-03-05 20:18:27 -0500 (Fri, 05 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  provide a fallback for xxmodule.c in case the buildir is not present
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  r78709 | tarek.ziade | 2010-03-05 20:23:21 -0500 (Fri, 05 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  simplified the fallback case
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 - Reverting the changes made in r78432. Discussed in the tracker issue #7540.
+- Issue #8107: Fixed test_distutils so it uses a local xxmodule.c file.
 
 Extension Modules
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