It looks like my reluctance to add gettimeofday to core without using it there was well founded.  Simply adding a dummy call to _PyTime_gettimeofday in main() fixed the build problem.  This is a hack, of course, so I am still looking for suggestions on how to make this work.


===================================================================
--- Modules/python.c	(revision 82921)
+++ Modules/python.c	(working copy)
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
     m = fpgetmask();
     fpsetmask(m & ~FP_X_OFL);
 #endif
+    struct timeval tv;
+    _PyTime_gettimeofday(&tv);
     if (!argv_copy || !argv_copy2) {
         fprintf(stderr, "out of memory\n");
         return 1;