*** source/gdb-7.4/gdb/python/python.c	2012-02-01 10:39:59.812953656 +0100
--- staging/gdb-7.4/gdb/python/python.c	2012-02-01 10:33:45.842953480 +0100
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*** 32,38 ****
  #include "serial.h"
  #include "readline/tilde.h"
  #include "python.h"
! 
  #include <ctype.h>
  
  /* Declared constants and enum for python stack printing.  */
--- 32,38 ----
  #include "serial.h"
  #include "readline/tilde.h"
  #include "python.h"
! #include <libgen.h>
  #include <ctype.h>
  
  /* Declared constants and enum for python stack printing.  */
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*** 1273,1278 ****
--- 1273,1288 ----
  			     SLASH_STRING, "python", NULL));
  #endif
  
+ 
+   char readlinkbuffer[BUFSIZ];
+   int readlinks = readlink("/proc/self/exe", readlinkbuffer, BUFSIZ - 1);
+   readlinkbuffer[readlinks] = 0; 
+   char *executeablepath = dirname(readlinkbuffer);
+   char *pythonhome = malloc(strlen(executeablepath) + strlen("/python/") + 2);
+   strcpy(pythonhome, executeablepath);
+   strcat(pythonhome, "/python/");
+   setenv("PYTHONHOME", pythonhome, 1);
+ 
    Py_Initialize ();
    PyEval_InitThreads ();