diff -Naur Python-2.7.orig/Makefile.pre.in Python-2.7.ref/Makefile.pre.in
--- Python-2.7.orig/Makefile.pre.in	2010-04-11 19:10:46.000000000 -0500
+++ Python-2.7.ref/Makefile.pre.in	2011-01-10 15:37:00.810619000 -0600
@@ -395,7 +395,8 @@
 $(BUILDPYTHON):	Modules/python.o $(LIBRARY) $(LDLIBRARY)
 		$(LINKCC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LINKFORSHARED) -o $@ \
 			Modules/python.o \
-			$(BLDLIBRARY) $(LIBS) $(MODLIBS) $(SYSLIBS) $(LDLAST)
+			-Wl,--whole-archive $(BLDLIBRARY) -Wl,--no-whole-archive \
+                        $(LIBS) $(MODLIBS) $(SYSLIBS) $(LDLAST)
 
 platform: $(BUILDPYTHON)
 	$(RUNSHARED) ./$(BUILDPYTHON) -E -c 'import sys ; from sysconfig import get_platform ; print get_platform()+"-"+sys.version[0:3]' >platform