Making a C extension compatible with 2.2

[Hamish Lawson]

Richard Townsend wrote:

> I found a very similar problem with the ingmod package (Python 
> interface to Ingres DB) on HP-UX 11.

Aha! It so happens it's also ingmod that my problem relates to! :-)  I
recently notified Holger Meyer about it and he said he would try to
address it soon, but I thought I would see what I could do myself in the
meantime (though I'm far from expert on writing C extensions for
Python).

Hamish Lawson