Skip Montanaro added the comment:

Before this goes any farther, let me make this clear - I *did not* develop this 
patch.  It was developed by the OpenSUSE folks.  I had trouble installing 
Python from source on the OpenSUSE system under my desk at work.  I asked about 
the problem on python-l...@python.org.  Someone directed me to this open bug 
report.  I saw the reference to the patch, applied it, and installed.  I 
verified that the installed Python executable now works as I expected, and 
reported that.  That is all I did.  Various responses seem to suggest that 
people think I wrote the patch.  I did not.  I didn't even look at the contents 
of the patch before applying it.  I regenerated it relative to the current hg 
trunk simply because when I first applied it, a couple chunks were applied with 
offsets.

If my feedback is not sufficient to help move this bug report forward, my 
apologies.  I know next to nothing about writing configure scripts, let alone 
the right way to do that.  I don't mess around at this level of things any 
more.  Haven't in at least a decade.  I don't know what a host macro is.  I 
have never used --libdir.  If people are looking to me to correct the flaws in 
this patch, they are likely going to wait for awhile.

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