the amount of pathcing that has to be done is insane, and he does not much of documentation. If there's success, we're conservating the whole build environment. Here is an example of the process:
bash-5.0$ python
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Python 2.7.16 (default, Jan 2 2020, 19:03:12)
[GCC 9.2.0 20190812 (sgugver-0.1.9-mips4)] on irix6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.getpid
<built-in function getpid>
>>> exit()
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checking for gethostbyname_r... yes
checking gethostbyname_r with 6 args... yes
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[20:39, 2.1.2020] icehwk: Er merkt das es da ist (=the computer sees it)
[20:39, 2.1.2020] icehwk: Aber dann nachher motzt er, das er nicht weiss, wo es ist (but then he complains, that he doesn't know, where it is)
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[20:41, 2.1.2020] icehwk: ich such raus, wo das definiert ist und zwing den dann dazu den header zu includen (so I'm looking for places, in which it is defined, and I force it to use the header)
[20:41, 2.1.2020] icehwk: was besseres kann ich momentan nicht machen (no better way of doing it)