> Your patch looks fine to me, except for this:
> -        if (platform in ('linux2', 'freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6',
> -                        'freebsd7', 'freebsd8')
> -            or platform.startswith("gnukfreebsd")):
> +        if os.uname()[0] in ('Linux', 'FreeBSD'):
> 
> Why not use platform.system(), to be consistent?

I'm not sure that thp platform module can be used in setup.py 
(bootstrap issue?). It should be tested.