Ned Deily added the comment:

I believe there are two different issues here. One: since the python-dev switch 
to hg, Python source release tarballs no longer have had consistent file time 
stamps which result in unnecessary generation steps being run in a build. 
Python 2.7 and 3.3 now include the "make touch" target to manually fix the 
timestamps for generated files and, in Issue18008, changes were made to the 
release process scripts so that future source tarballs will be produced with 
consistent timestamps and these spurious generation steps should no longer run. 
 The second issue is making sure that, if you are building from a repo or 
possibly with separate, out-of-tree build directory, generated files are built 
correctly and are used as expected in the build.  There are a number of subtle 
points involved in getting this right for all cases; Issue15819 has been 
tracking these points.  I'm going to close this issue as a duplicate of it and 
suggest any further discussion take place there.

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resolution: out of date -> duplicate
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> Unable to build Python out-of-tree when source tree is  
readonly.

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