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cext: define S_IFLNK on Python 2.7 and Windows

Before this change, building on Python 2.7 on Windows fails due to
S_IFLNK being undefined. This regression was introduced by
a32a96079e2d / D11518.

It worked on Python 3 because its pyport.h (which is included via
Python.h) contains effectively the same code as added by this
changeset.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11763

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
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Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.