bpo-38021: Modify AIX platform_tag so it covers PEP 425 needs (GH-17303)

Provides a richer platform tag for AIX that we expect to be sufficient for PEP 425
binary distribution identification. Any backports to earlier Python versions will be
handled via setuptools.

Patch by Michael Felt.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 44f14c3c2cf..a2c7ddf595d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -10028,7 +10028,21 @@ $as_echo "no" >&6; }
 
 fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext;;
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+# BUILD_GNU_TYPE + AIX_BUILDDATE are used to construct the platform_tag
+# of the AIX system used to build/package Python executable. This tag serves
+# as a baseline for bdist module packages
+               { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for the system builddate" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for the system builddate... " >&6; }
+               AIX_BUILDDATE=$(lslpp -Lcq bos.mp64 | awk -F:  '{ print $NF }')
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
+#define AIX_BUILDDATE $AIX_BUILDDATE
+_ACEOF
+
+               { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $AIX_BUILDDATE" >&5
+$as_echo "$AIX_BUILDDATE" >&6; }
+               ;;
 	*) ;;
 esac
 
@@ -10267,7 +10281,6 @@ fi
 
 
 
-
 if test "x$ac_cv_env_PKG_CONFIG_set" != "xset"; then
 	if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
   # Extract the first word of "${ac_tool_prefix}pkg-config", so it can be a program name with args.