diff -r 897fe8fa14b5 configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Thu Oct 13 23:00:37 2016 -0700
+++ b/configure.ac	Fri Oct 14 17:37:53 2016 +0200
@@ -379,6 +379,9 @@
        # a lot of different things including 'define_xopen_source'
        # in the case statement below.
 	case "$host" in
+	*-*-linux-android*)
+		ac_sys_system=Linux-android
+		;;
 	*-*-linux*)
 		ac_sys_system=Linux
 		;;
@@ -935,16 +938,26 @@
 cat >> conftest.c <<EOF
 #ifdef __ANDROID__
 #include <android/api-level.h>
-__ANDROID_API__
+android_api = __ANDROID_API__
+arm_arch = __ARM_ARCH
 #else
 #error not Android
 #endif
 EOF
 
 if $CPP $CPPFLAGS conftest.c >conftest.out 2>/dev/null; then
-  ANDROID_API_LEVEL=`grep -v '^#' conftest.out | grep -v '^ *$'`
+  ANDROID_API_LEVEL=`sed -n -e '/__ANDROID_API__/d' -e 's/^android_api = //p' conftest.out`
+  _arm_arch=`sed -n -e '/__ARM_ARCH/d' -e 's/^arm_arch = //p' conftest.out`
   AC_MSG_RESULT([$ANDROID_API_LEVEL])
   AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(ANDROID_API_LEVEL, $ANDROID_API_LEVEL, [The Android API level.])
+
+  # 'host_cpu' is already set by config.sub to 'arm' for Android arm architectures.
+  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the Android arm ABI])
+  AC_MSG_RESULT([$_arm_arch])
+  if test "$_arm_arch" = 7; then
+    host_cpu="armv7"
+    LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -march=armv7-a -Wl,--fix-cortex-a8"
+  fi
 else
   AC_MSG_RESULT([not Android])
 fi
@@ -1854,6 +1867,14 @@
     ;;
 esac
 
+
+case $ac_sys_system in
+Linux-android*)
+    if test "$host_cpu" = armv7; then
+        BASECFLAGS="$BASECFLAGS -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfpv3-d16"
+    fi
+esac
+
 if test "$Py_DEBUG" = 'true'; then
   :
 else
@@ -2557,6 +2578,7 @@
 		 then CCSHARED="-fPIC";
 		 else CCSHARED="+z";
 		 fi;;
+	Linux-android*) ;;
 	Linux*|GNU*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
 	BSD/OS*/4*) CCSHARED="-fpic";;
 	FreeBSD*|NetBSD*|OpenBSD*|DragonFly*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
@@ -2588,6 +2610,7 @@
 	    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/*)