Failure during build of Python 3.8 via cygport

[Marco Atzeri]

On 15.12.2020 09:06, Mark Geisert wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-developers wrote:
>> On Dec 14 02:42, Mark Geisert wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> In retrospect, uname_x should be named _uname_x or so, with a leading
>> underscore, so as not to pollute the namespace, but either way, that
>> isn;t your problem.
> 
> OK, I see.
> 
>> The problem here might be that you get the old uname function if
>> you dlopen the cygwin dll and dlsym(hdl, "uname").  Is that the
>> case in python?
> 
> Yes it is.
> 
>> If so, I have a simple, dirty workaround below.  Can you check if that's
>> the problem, please?
> 
> A new Cygwin DLL built with your patch does correct this 'uname' issue 
> when building Python.  Wonderful!
> Thank you very much!
> 
> ..mark

It seems I do not need to rebuild python for this reason. Correct ?