Part of the Unicode checkin for Marc-Andre Lemburg.

Some new configuration tests and a new option, --with-wctype-functions.

acconfig.h

@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@
 /* Define if you want SIGFPE handled (see Include/pyfpe.h). */
 #undef WANT_SIGFPE_HANDLER
 
+/* Define if the compiler provides a wchar.h header file. */
+#undef HAVE_WCHAR_H
+
+/* Define if you have a useable wchar_t type defined in wchar.h; useable
+   means wchar_t must be 16-bit unsigned type. (see
+   Include/unicodeobject.h). */
+#undef HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T
+
+/* Define if you want wctype.h functions to be used instead of the
+   one supplied by Python itself. (see Include/unicodectype.h). */
+#undef WANT_WCTYPE_FUNCTIONS
+
 /* Define if you want to use SGI (IRIX 4) dynamic linking.
    This requires the "dl" library by Jack Jansen,
    ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z.

config.h.in

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
    tzname.  */
 #undef HAVE_TZNAME
 
+/* Define as __inline if that's what the C compiler calls it.  */
+#undef inline
+
 /* Define if on MINIX.  */
 #undef _MINIX
 
@@ -62,6 +65,10 @@
 /* Define to `int' if <sys/types.h> doesn't define.  */
 #undef uid_t
 
+/* Define if your processor stores words with the most significant
+   byte first (like Motorola and SPARC, unlike Intel and VAX).  */
+#undef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+
 /* Define if your <unistd.h> contains bad prototypes for exec*()
    (as it does on SGI IRIX 4.x) */
 #undef BAD_EXEC_PROTOTYPES
@@ -155,6 +162,18 @@
 /* Define if you want SIGFPE handled (see Include/pyfpe.h). */
 #undef WANT_SIGFPE_HANDLER
 
+/* Define if the compiler provides a wchar.h header file. */
+#undef HAVE_WCHAR_H
+
+/* Define if you have a useable wchar_t type defined in wchar.h; useable
+   means wchar_t must be 16-bit unsigned type. (see
+   Include/unicodeobject.h). */
+#undef HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T
+
+/* Define if you want wctype.h functions to be used instead of the
+   one supplied by Python itself. (see Include/unicodectype.h). */
+#undef WANT_WCTYPE_FUNCTIONS
+
 /* Define if you want to use SGI (IRIX 4) dynamic linking.
    This requires the "dl" library by Jack Jansen,
    ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z.
@@ -200,6 +219,15 @@
 /* Defined when any dynamic module loading is enabled */
 #undef HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING
 
+/* The number of bytes in a char.  */
+#undef SIZEOF_CHAR
+
+/* The number of bytes in a double.  */
+#undef SIZEOF_DOUBLE
+
+/* The number of bytes in a float.  */
+#undef SIZEOF_FLOAT
+
 /* The number of bytes in a int.  */
 #undef SIZEOF_INT
 
@@ -209,6 +237,9 @@
 /* The number of bytes in a long long.  */
 #undef SIZEOF_LONG_LONG
 
+/* The number of bytes in a short.  */
+#undef SIZEOF_SHORT
+
 /* The number of bytes in a void *.  */
 #undef SIZEOF_VOID_P
 

configure.in

@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ cat >> confdefs.h <<\EOF
 #endif
 EOF
 
+# Type availability checks
 AC_TYPE_MODE_T
 AC_TYPE_OFF_T
 AC_TYPE_PID_T
@@ -380,9 +381,14 @@ AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
 AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
 AC_TYPE_UID_T
 
+# Sizes of various common basic types
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *)
+AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(char)
+AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(short)
+AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(float)
+AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(double)
 
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for long long support)
 have_long_long=no
@@ -791,8 +797,8 @@ AC_MSG_RESULT($was_it_defined)
 # checks for compiler characteristics
 
 AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED
-
 AC_C_CONST
+AC_C_INLINE
 
 works=no
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for working volatile)
@@ -942,7 +948,8 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(fpectl, [--with-fpectl             enable SIGFPE catching], [
 if test "$withval" != no
 then AC_DEFINE(WANT_SIGFPE_HANDLER) AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
 else AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
-fi])
+fi],
+[AC_MSG_RESULT(no)])
 
 # check for --with-libm=...
 AC_SUBST(LIBM)
@@ -1025,6 +1032,43 @@ then
   AC_DEFINE(MALLOC_ZERO_RETURNS_NULL)
 fi
 
+# check for wchar.h
+AC_CHECK_HEADER(wchar.h,
+AC_DEFINE(HAVE_WCHAR_H) wchar_h="yes",
+wchar_h="no"
+)
+
+# check for usable wchar_t
+usable_wchar_t="unkown"
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for usable wchar_t)
+AC_TRY_RUN([
+#include "wchar.h"
+#include "wctype.h"
+main() {
+ wchar_t s;
+ if (sizeof(s) == 2)
+  exit(0);
+ else
+  exit(1);
+}
+], 
+AC_DEFINE(HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T) usable_wchar_t="yes",
+usable_wchar_t="no")
+AC_MSG_RESULT($usable_wchar_t)
+
+# check for endianness
+AC_C_BIGENDIAN
+
+# Check for --with-wctype-functions
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-wctype-functions)
+AC_ARG_WITH(wctype-functions, 
+[--with-wctype-functions   use wctype.h functions], [
+if test "$withval" != no
+then AC_DEFINE(WANT_WCTYPE_FUNCTIONS) AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+else AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+fi],
+[AC_MSG_RESULT(no)])
+
 # generate output files
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile \
  Objects/Makefile \