--- python-2.5.2-r8.ebuild.old	2009-05-07 03:05:22.000000000 +0300
+++ python-2.5.2-r8.ebuild	2009-05-07 02:53:07.000000000 +0300
@@ -62,12 +62,31 @@
 	else
 		rm "${WORKDIR}/${PV}"/*_all_crosscompile.patch
 	fi
+	
+	# Compilation of the ctypes extension fails for archs that do not have FFI_CLOSURES.
+	# This fixes the compilation and makes ctypes also available to those archs.
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/python-2.5.2-cross-enable-ctypes-module.patch
 
 	#Fixes some of the tr_TR locale issues. Bug #250075. Thanks Serkan for pointing it
 	#out
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}_turkish.patch"
 
 	EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" epatch "${WORKDIR}/${PV}"
+
+	# We must put the following patches AFTER the patch-bomb above, because they were generated afterwards
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler ; then
+		# Change setup.py to respect the SYSROOT environment variable
+		epatch "${FILESDIR}/python-2.5.2-cross-setup-sysroot.patch"
+	fi
+
+	# Add a libdirname to enable python cross-compiling and add a user specifyable libdir
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/python-2.5.2-cross-Makefile.pre.in.patch"
+	# Make distutils cross-compile aware
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/python-2.5.2-cross-distutils-sysconfig.patch"
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/python-2.5.2-cross-distutils-build_ext.patch"
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/python-2.5.2-cross-distutils-install.patch"
+
+	# Put in the correct library directory name for the current arch.
 	sed -i -e "s:@@GENTOO_LIBDIR@@:$(get_libdir):g" \
 		Lib/distutils/command/install.py \
 		Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py \