Sorry for the late reply..

> The second draft is now available at the same URL.  This one has been
> tested a little more, and I'll probably commit it sometime next week
> unless someone tells me not to.
I've had only the chance to test the already commited version of the patch 
and that one works fine. It fixes all the POSIX defintion related builds 
problems for Python 2.3/CVS.

Regards,
Marc

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