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With cross.patch I've been able to build a working freebsd
python on linux.
Since you had little problems with the X-compile patches, I'm
resubmitting those first. I'd like to give our (admittedly: oddball)
mingw version another go when the X-compile patches are in python SVN.
Regarding your comments:
* what would be a better to import the SO setting?
the most reliable way to get something out of a makefile into python is
 VAR=foo
 export VAR
 .. 
 os.environ['VAR']
this doesn't introduce any fragility in parsing/expanding/(un)quoting, so it's
actually pretty good.
Right now, I'm overriding sysconfig wholesale in setup.py with a
 sysconfig._config_vars.update (os.environ)
but I'm not sure that this affects the settings in build_ext.py.
A freebsd -> linux compile does not touch that code, so
if you dislike it, we can leave it out.
* I've documented the .x extension
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