Message 82431 - Python tracker

> apparently that used 15bit 
> digits despite --enable-big-digits on configure

Maybe configure didn't get updated properly?  I'm almost sure I found a 
case where autoconf and autoheader just reused the stuff in the 
autom4te.cache directory even though configure.in had been changed.
I've been doing:  rm -fr autom4te.cache; autoconf; autoheader
each time.