--- /dev/null
+--- gedit-2.23.92/configure.ac~ 2008-09-12 23:25:45.000000000 +0200
++++ gedit-2.23.92/configure.ac 2008-09-12 23:29:40.082029119 +0200
+@@ -220,31 +220,6 @@
+ AC_SUBST([PYTHON_LIB_LOC])
+ AC_SUBST([PYTHON_CFLAGS])
+ AC_SUBST([PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS])
+-
+- dnl FIXME: do we really need this test?
+- AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether we can build a shared library depending on libpython])
+- rm -rf testpython
+- mkdir testpython
+- cd testpython
+- cat > testpython.c <<EOF
+-#include <Python.h>
+-int testpython (void)
+-{
+-Py_Exit (0);
+-}
+-EOF
+-
+- if /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile ${CC} $PYTHON_CFLAGS -c testpython.c >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
+- /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link ${CC} -o testpython.la -rpath `pwd` -module -avoid-version -no-undefined $PYTHON_LIB_LOC testpython.lo $PYTHON_LIBS $PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
+- grep 'dlname.*testpython' testpython.la >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+- result=yes
+- else
+- result=no
+- have_python=no
+- fi
+- cd ..
+- rm -rf testpython
+- AC_MSG_RESULT([$result])
+ fi
+
+ if test "x$have_python" != "xyes"; then