[pygtk] gnome-python-2.25.1: waf problem: unparsed spaces in LDFLAGS (SOLVED)

[Poor Yorick]

installing gnome-python-2.25.1, encountered problem with underlying configure machinery in waf.  The problem turned out to be that LDFLAGS needed to be split on whitespace in python.py so that the called compiler command could see the proper arguments.  More details here:

https://www.pooryorick.com/secure/wiki/Pub/GnomePython

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Yorick