Neil Schemenauer <nas-pyt...@arctrix.com> added the comment:

PR 8229 doesn't work if the build dir is separate from the src dir (mentioned 
in the PR comments).  The attached patch (makesetup_fallback_dist.txt) changes 
makesetup to fallback to using $srcdir/Modules/Setup.dist if Modules/Setup 
doesn't exist.  I removed the copying of Setup.dist to Setup.  Also, I removed 
the dependencies in the makefile that look for an out-of-date Setup file and 
the ones that automatically run makesetup.  There is now a "makesetup" target 
with no deps.  You would have to run "make makesetup" if you want to regenerate 
config.c and the Makefile.  Otherwise, running "configure" would also do the 
job.

One possible issue with the patch: I expect that some build systems expect 
that, after configure, Modules/Setup will exist in the build dir and can be 
modified.  For that reason, I think a better fix is to make 'configure' 
unconditionally create Modules/Setup from $srcdir/Modules/Setup.dist.

I'm attaching as a patch as I'm not sure about creating a bunch of half-baked 
PRs to show ideas.  It seems to me that a small patch as a text attachment is 
better.  Maybe I'm a dinosaur. ;-P

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