--- distutils/command/build_ext.py        Tue Apr 24 10:27:25 2007
+++ distutils/command/build_ext.py        Wed Jan 28 17:55:03 2009
@@ -197,7 +197,8 @@
 
         # for extensions under Linux with a shared Python library,
         # Python's library directory must be appended to library_dirs
-        if (sys.platform.startswith('linux') or sys.platform.startswith('gnu')) \
+        if (sys.platform.startswith('linux') or sys.platform.startswith('gnu') or \
+                sys.platform.startswith('sunos')) \
                 and sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED'):
             if sys.executable.startswith(os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "bin")):
                 # building third party extensions