diff -r fb70ea8b7b2d configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Tue Apr 26 09:31:11 2016 +0300
+++ b/configure.ac	Tue Apr 26 14:13:02 2016 +0200
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Include/object.h])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(pyconfig.h)
 
+_android__host_cpu=$host_cpu
 AC_SUBST(cross_compiling)
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_SUBST(build)
@@ -368,6 +369,12 @@
        # a lot of different things including 'define_xopen_source'
        # in the case statement below.
 	case "$host" in
+	*-*-linux-android*)
+		ac_sys_system=Linux-android
+                if test x$_android__host_cpu != x; then
+                    host_cpu=$_android__host_cpu
+                fi
+		;;
 	*-*-linux*)
 		ac_sys_system=Linux
 		;;
@@ -2437,6 +2444,12 @@
 		 then CCSHARED="-fPIC";
 		 else CCSHARED="+z";
 		 fi;;
+	Linux-android*)
+	  case $host_cpu in
+	      armv7) CCSHARED="-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfpv3-d16" ;;
+	      arm) CCSHARED="-mthumb" ;;
+	  esac
+        ;;
 	Linux*|GNU*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
 	BSD/OS*/4*) CCSHARED="-fpic";;
 	FreeBSD*|NetBSD*|OpenBSD*|DragonFly*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
@@ -2468,6 +2481,7 @@
 	    LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-E -Wl,+s";;
 #	    LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-E -Wl,+s -Wl,+b\$(BINLIBDEST)/lib-dynload";;
 	BSD/OS/4*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
+	Linux-android*) LINKFORSHARED="-pie -Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
 	Linux*|GNU*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
 	# -u libsys_s pulls in all symbols in libsys
 	Darwin/*)
diff -r fb70ea8b7b2d configure
--- a/configure	Tue Apr 26 09:31:11 2016 +0300
+++ b/configure	Tue Apr 26 14:13:28 2016 +0200
@@ -2876,6 +2876,8 @@
 ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers pyconfig.h"
 
 
+_android__host_cpu=$host_cpu
+
 ac_aux_dir=
 for ac_dir in "$srcdir" "$srcdir/.." "$srcdir/../.."; do
   if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then
@@ -3313,6 +3315,12 @@
        # a lot of different things including 'define_xopen_source'
        # in the case statement below.
 	case "$host" in
+	*-*-linux-android*)
+		ac_sys_system=Linux-android
+                if test x$_android__host_cpu != x; then
+                    host_cpu=$_android__host_cpu
+                fi
+		;;
 	*-*-linux*)
 		ac_sys_system=Linux
 		;;
@@ -9226,6 +9234,12 @@
 		 then CCSHARED="-fPIC";
 		 else CCSHARED="+z";
 		 fi;;
+	Linux-android*)
+	  case $host_cpu in
+	      armv7) CCSHARED="-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfpv3-d16" ;;
+	      arm) CCSHARED="-mthumb" ;;
+	  esac
+        ;;
 	Linux*|GNU*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
 	BSD/OS*/4*) CCSHARED="-fpic";;
 	FreeBSD*|NetBSD*|OpenBSD*|DragonFly*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
@@ -9259,6 +9273,7 @@
 	    LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-E -Wl,+s";;
 #	    LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-E -Wl,+s -Wl,+b\$(BINLIBDEST)/lib-dynload";;
 	BSD/OS/4*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
+	Linux-android*) LINKFORSHARED="-pie -Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
 	Linux*|GNU*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
 	# -u libsys_s pulls in all symbols in libsys
 	Darwin/*)