[issue1706863] Failed to build Python 2.5.1 with sqlite3

[Hirokazu Yamamoto]

Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city at m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> added the comment:

>extra changes that has to go in a
>specific compiler class. As example platform can be any but compiler
>gcc(mingw) that produce executables for windows host platform.

You are right. It should be. My patch is just one choice when switching
back to CygwinCCompiler is difficult. (Anyway I don't understand well
why CygwinCCompiler was abandoned)

>it would be better to put Cygwin specific behavior 
>in CygwinCCompiler, I think the changes would have be more invasive if 
>you did.

Agreed.

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