but no one but me seems to build python the unix-y way on darwin/macosx anymore
so i guess i'm the only one that cares
btw, python without environ defined makes all third party python bindings segfault
this has been pissing me off for months
only tracked it down yesterday
here's my lackluster patch
feel free to find something more apropos to conditionalize the diff with and commit it 
or not
i don't care anymore