--- lxml-2.1.1.ebuild	2008-10-07 10:40:38.000000000 +0200
+++ lxml-2.1.2.ebuild	2008-10-07 10:40:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
+#Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-python/lxml/lxml-2.1.1.ebuild,v 1.1 2008/08/19 10:07:42 hawking Exp $
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 LICENSE="BSD ElementTree GPL-2 PSF-2.4"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="doc examples"
+IUSE="doc examples threads"
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.21
 		>=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.15"
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.0.3-no-fake-pyrex.patch"
 }
 
+src_compile() {
+	if use threads; then
+		${python} setup.py build "$@" || die "compilation failed"
+	else
+		${python} setup.py build --without-threading "$@" || die "compilation failed"
+	fi
+}
+
 src_install() {
 	distutils_src_install