2009/1/31 Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com>:
  

I'm leaning more and more toward this is actually a bug
with the distutils source on Solaris.
      

Yes, I agree now that it is a bug in distutils and I agree with your
fix.  The if statement should check both that it is SunOS and that it
is using a shared python, just like the linux one.  If fact the linux
one could just be modified:

if (sys.paltform.startswith('linux') \
   or sys.platform.startswith('gnu') \
   or sys.platform.startswith('sunos')) \
       and sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED'):
   ...

I'll leave the honours of reporting the bug to you if you agree with
this.
    

Yes thanks to report this, I'll apply your fix,

Regards
Tarek