Index: Makefile.pre.in
===================================================================
--- Makefile.pre.in	(revision 68303)
+++ Makefile.pre.in	(working copy)
@@ -393,8 +393,8 @@
 # Build the shared modules
 sharedmods: $(BUILDPYTHON)
 	@case $$MAKEFLAGS in \
-	*s*) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' ./$(BUILDPYTHON) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py -q build;; \
-	*) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' ./$(BUILDPYTHON) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py build;; \
+	*s*) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) ./$(BUILDPYTHON) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py -q build;; \
+	*) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) ./$(BUILDPYTHON) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py build;; \
 	esac
 
 # Build static library
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in	(revision 68303)
+++ configure.in	(working copy)
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@
 		fi ;;
 	OSF*) LDSHARED="ld -shared -expect_unresolved \"*\"";;
 	Darwin/1.3*)
-		LDSHARED='$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle'
+		LDSHARED='$(CC) -bundle'
 		if test "$enable_framework" ; then
 			# Link against the framework. All externals should be defined.
 			BLDSHARED="$LDSHARED "'$(PYTHONFRAMEWORKDIR)/Versions/$(VERSION)/$(PYTHONFRAMEWORK)'
@@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@
 			LDSHARED="$LDSHARED -undefined suppress"
 		fi ;;
 	Darwin/1.4*|Darwin/5.*|Darwin/6.*)
-		LDSHARED='$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle'
+		LDSHARED='$(CC) -bundle'
 		if test "$enable_framework" ; then
 			# Link against the framework. All externals should be defined.
 			BLDSHARED="$LDSHARED "'$(PYTHONFRAMEWORKDIR)/Versions/$(VERSION)/$(PYTHONFRAMEWORK)'
@@ -1664,10 +1664,10 @@
 			if test "${enable_universalsdk}"; then
 				LDFLAGS="${UNIVERSAL_ARCH_FLAGS} -isysroot ${UNIVERSALSDK} ${LDFLAGS}"
 			fi
-			LDSHARED='$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup'
+			LDSHARED='$(CC) -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup'
 			BLDSHARED="$LDSHARED"
 		else
-			LDSHARED='$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle'
+			LDSHARED='$(CC) -bundle'
 			if test "$enable_framework" ; then
 				# Link against the framework. All externals should be defined.
 				BLDSHARED="$LDSHARED "'$(PYTHONFRAMEWORKDIR)/Versions/$(VERSION)/$(PYTHONFRAMEWORK)'
@@ -1684,25 +1684,25 @@
 	FreeBSD*)
 		if [[ "`$CC -dM -E - </dev/null | grep __ELF__`" != "" ]]
 		then
-			LDSHARED="$CC -shared ${LDFLAGS}"
+			LDSHARED="$CC -shared"
 		else
-			LDSHARED="ld -Bshareable ${LDFLAGS}"
+			LDSHARED="ld -Bshareable"
 		fi;;
 	OpenBSD*)
 		if [[ "`$CC -dM -E - </dev/null | grep __ELF__`" != "" ]]
 		then
-				LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared $(CCSHARED) ${LDFLAGS}'
+				LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared $(CCSHARED)'
 		else
 				case `uname -r` in
 				[[01]].* | 2.[[0-7]] | 2.[[0-7]].*)
-				   LDSHARED="ld -Bshareable ${LDFLAGS}"
+				   LDSHARED="ld -Bshareable"
 				   ;;
 				*)
-				   LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared $(CCSHARED) ${LDFLAGS}'
+				   LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared $(CCSHARED)'
 				   ;;
 				esac
 		fi;;
-	NetBSD*|DragonFly*) LDSHARED="cc -shared ${LDFLAGS}";;
+	NetBSD*|DragonFly*) LDSHARED="cc -shared";;
 	OpenUNIX*|UnixWare*)
 		if test "$GCC" = "yes"
 		then LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared'
Index: setup.py
===================================================================
--- setup.py	(revision 68303)
+++ setup.py	(working copy)
@@ -314,16 +318,14 @@
         add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs, '/usr/local/lib')
         add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs, '/usr/local/include')
 
-        # Add paths specified in the environment variables LDFLAGS and
+        # Add paths specified in the environment variables
         # CPPFLAGS for header and library files.
         # We must get the values from the Makefile and not the environment
         # directly since an inconsistently reproducible issue comes up where
         # the environment variable is not set even though the value were passed
         # into configure and stored in the Makefile (issue found on OS X 10.3).
-        for env_var, arg_name, dir_list in (
-                ('LDFLAGS', '-R', self.compiler.runtime_library_dirs),
-                ('LDFLAGS', '-L', self.compiler.library_dirs),
-                ('CPPFLAGS', '-I', self.compiler.include_dirs)):
+        for env_var, arg_name, dir_list in [
+                ('CPPFLAGS', '-I', self.compiler.include_dirs)]:
             env_val = sysconfig.get_config_var(env_var)
             if env_val:
                 # To prevent optparse from raising an exception about any
@@ -389,21 +391,17 @@
 
         if platform == 'darwin':
             # This should work on any unixy platform ;-)
-            # If the user has bothered specifying additional -I and -L flags
-            # in OPT and LDFLAGS we might as well use them here.
+            # If the user has bothered specifying additional -I
+            # in OPT we might as well use them here.
             #   NOTE: using shlex.split would technically be more correct, but
             # also gives a bootstrap problem. Let's hope nobody uses directories
             # with whitespace in the name to store libraries.
-            cflags, ldflags = sysconfig.get_config_vars(
-                    'CFLAGS', 'LDFLAGS')
+            cflags = sysconfig.get_config_vars(
+                    'CFLAGS')
             for item in cflags.split():
                 if item.startswith('-I'):
                     inc_dirs.append(item[2:])
 
-            for item in ldflags.split():
-                if item.startswith('-L'):
-                    lib_dirs.append(item[2:])
-
         # Check for MacOS X, which doesn't need libm.a at all
         math_libs = ['m']
         if platform in ['darwin', 'beos', 'mac']: