--- python-2.4.5/configure.in.orig	2008-11-08 17:11:33.000000000 +0100
+++ python-2.4.5/configure.in	2008-11-08 17:13:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ case $ac_sys_system/$ac_sys_release in
   # it craps out if _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE is defined. Apparently,
   # this is fixed in 10.3, which identifies itself as Darwin/7.*
   # This should hopefully be fixed in FreeBSD 4.9
-  FreeBSD/4.8* | Darwin/6* )
+  freebsd4* |  FreeBSD/4.8* | Darwin/6* )
     define_xopen_source=no;;
   # On AIX 4 and 5.1, mbstate_t is defined only when _XOPEN_SOURCE == 500 but
   # used in wcsnrtombs() and mbsnrtowcs() even if _XOPEN_SOURCE is not defined
@@ -671,12 +671,12 @@ if test $enable_shared = "yes"; then
 	  RUNSHARED=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
 	  INSTSONAME="$LDLIBRARY".$SOVERSION
           ;;
-    Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD*|FreeBSD*|DragonFly*)
+    linux*|Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD*|FreeBSD*|DragonFly*)
 	  LDLIBRARY='libpython$(VERSION).so'
 	  BLDLIBRARY='-L. -lpython$(VERSION)'
 	  RUNSHARED=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
 	  case $ac_sys_system in
-	      FreeBSD*)
+	      FreeBSD*|freebsd*)
 		SOVERSION=`echo $SOVERSION|cut -d "." -f 1`
 		;;
 	  esac
@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ then
 			fi
 		fi
 		;;
-	Linux*|GNU*) LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared';;
+	linux*|Linux*|GNU*) LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared';;
 	BSD/OS*/4*) LDSHARED="gcc -shared";;
 	FreeBSD*)
 		if [[ "`$CC -dM -E - </dev/null | grep __ELF__`" != "" ]]
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ then
 		 then CCSHARED="-fPIC";
 		 else CCSHARED="+z";
 		 fi;;
-	Linux*|GNU*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
+	linux*|Linux*|GNU*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
 	BSD/OS*/4*) CCSHARED="-fpic";;
 	FreeBSD*|NetBSD*|OpenBSD*|DragonFly*) CCSHARED="-fPIC";;
 	OpenUNIX*|UnixWare*)
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ then
 	    LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-E -Wl,+s";;
 #	    LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-E -Wl,+s -Wl,+b\$(BINLIBDEST)/lib-dynload";;
 	BSD/OS/4*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
-	Linux*|GNU*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
+	linux*|Linux*|GNU*) LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker -export-dynamic";;
 	# -u libsys_s pulls in all symbols in libsys
 	Darwin/*) 
 		# -u _PyMac_Error is needed to pull in the mac toolbox glue,