Patch for recent Python versions

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-04-26 20:37, Keith Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
> I see that Cygwin only supports Python 3.9.16 (or 3.9.18 as a test
> version), which is a couple of years old.
> 
> I'm sure there's work to support newer versions, but I don't know
> the details.
> 
> I've succesfully built 3.13.3 and 3.14.0a7 from source, with the
> patch at the bottom of this email.
> 
> There are still some issues, including lack of support for asyncio
> due to the missing epoll API.  (And I'm curious why clockid_t is
> defined as unsigned long; it seems like overkill.)

Derived from newlib libc machine and POSIX definitions.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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