Stefan Krah wrote:
> 
> Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet@bytereef.org> added the comment:
> 
> (1) I can get around the configure problem by patching configure.in,
>     meaning that va_list is detected correctly now. Perhaps BASECFLAGS
>     should be used by default for the compile tests?
> 
> (2) Now I run into the problem that distutils somehow ignores the
>     LDFLAGS:
> 
>  
> gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.2/home/stefan/tmp/svn/py3k/Modules/_struct.o -L/usr/local/lib -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/_struct.so
> collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
> 
> 
> 
> So it might be possible to fix the situation by changing configure.in
> and distutils. On the other hand, the patches from Bob and Antoine are
> simpler.

Right, let's go with Antoine's patch and fix the real Makefile
variable problem in some other release - this will require some
major changes to the Makefile and also some changes to distutils.