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I'm running into issues trying to come up with a clean version 
of this. I'd like to know what you think of some of these 
before I try to port what I've got into 2.4 and come up with 
patches.

1) setup.py seems to have no way to be selective about 
which modules to build. What if I don't want to try (and then 
fail make install) to build, for example, ssl?

2) setup.py makes assumptions about pathnames. It always 
puts /usr/local/lib into the build path. On a 64-bit solaris or HP 
system, this can lead to a mess, if the 64 bit libraries are 
somewhere else.

3) There is an existing provision to add additional libs to the 
build in setup.py, but it's disabled if the prefix is /usr. Why?

I have this feeling that someone had a plan here that I'm too 
obtuse to make out which would offer a shorter path to a 
solution then I'm getting tangled up in, for managing the build 
of these modules.