It's always bothered me that python's Makefile outputs:
case $MAKEFLAGS in \
        *-s*)  CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread
-shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py -q build;; \
        *)  CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread
-shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py build;; \
        esac

Maybe it does this for a good reason I don't know about :)

In case there isn't, here's a one-line patch to fix it.