@Thomas: Thank you for the patches! Adding more flexibility to the build system that allows for cross-compiling and building "embeddable/distributable" python is definitely something that needs to be done is my opinion. So I definitely find your work very valuable to me. I admit that I use all patches, related to feature configuration from http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/python
Thank you and keep up the great work! I'm positive about the direction that a flexibility/configurability should be in place, especially when talking for such a mature project.