diff -ru BuildPython-2.5.1/Lib/distutils/util.py Python-2.5.1/Lib/distutils/util.py
--- BuildPython-2.5.1/Lib/distutils/util.py	2006-05-23 21:54:23.000000000 +0000
+++ Python-2.5.1/Lib/distutils/util.py	2008-01-09 07:47:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,110 +13,7 @@
 from distutils import log
 
 def get_platform ():
-    """Return a string that identifies the current platform.  This is used
-    mainly to distinguish platform-specific build directories and
-    platform-specific built distributions.  Typically includes the OS name
-    and version and the architecture (as supplied by 'os.uname()'),
-    although the exact information included depends on the OS; eg. for IRIX
-    the architecture isn't particularly important (IRIX only runs on SGI
-    hardware), but for Linux the kernel version isn't particularly
-    important.
-
-    Examples of returned values:
-       linux-i586
-       linux-alpha (?)
-       solaris-2.6-sun4u
-       irix-5.3
-       irix64-6.2
-
-    For non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns 'sys.platform'.
-    """
-    if os.name != "posix" or not hasattr(os, 'uname'):
-        # XXX what about the architecture? NT is Intel or Alpha,
-        # Mac OS is M68k or PPC, etc.
-        return sys.platform
-
-    # Try to distinguish various flavours of Unix
-
-    (osname, host, release, version, machine) = os.uname()
-
-    # Convert the OS name to lowercase, remove '/' characters
-    # (to accommodate BSD/OS), and translate spaces (for "Power Macintosh")
-    osname = string.lower(osname)
-    osname = string.replace(osname, '/', '')
-    machine = string.replace(machine, ' ', '_')
-    machine = string.replace(machine, '/', '-')
-
-    if osname[:5] == "linux":
-        # At least on Linux/Intel, 'machine' is the processor --
-        # i386, etc.
-        # XXX what about Alpha, SPARC, etc?
-        return  "%s-%s" % (osname, machine)
-    elif osname[:5] == "sunos":
-        if release[0] >= "5":           # SunOS 5 == Solaris 2
-            osname = "solaris"
-            release = "%d.%s" % (int(release[0]) - 3, release[2:])
-        # fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation
-    elif osname[:4] == "irix":              # could be "irix64"!
-        return "%s-%s" % (osname, release)
-    elif osname[:3] == "aix":
-        return "%s-%s.%s" % (osname, version, release)
-    elif osname[:6] == "cygwin":
-        osname = "cygwin"
-        rel_re = re.compile (r'[\d.]+')
-        m = rel_re.match(release)
-        if m:
-            release = m.group()
-    elif osname[:6] == "darwin":
-        #
-        # For our purposes, we'll assume that the system version from
-        # distutils' perspective is what MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set
-        # to. This makes the compatibility story a bit more sane because the
-        # machine is going to compile and link as if it were
-        # MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.
-        from distutils.sysconfig import get_config_vars
-        cfgvars = get_config_vars()
-
-        macver = os.environ.get('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET')
-        if not macver:
-            macver = cfgvars.get('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET')
-
-        if not macver:
-            # Get the system version. Reading this plist is a documented
-            # way to get the system version (see the documentation for
-            # the Gestalt Manager)
-            try:
-                f = open('/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist')
-            except IOError:
-                # We're on a plain darwin box, fall back to the default
-                # behaviour.
-                pass
-            else:
-                m = re.search(
-                        r'<key>ProductUserVisibleVersion</key>\s*' +
-                        r'<string>(.*?)</string>', f.read())
-                f.close()
-                if m is not None:
-                    macver = '.'.join(m.group(1).split('.')[:2])
-                # else: fall back to the default behaviour
-
-        if macver:
-            from distutils.sysconfig import get_config_vars
-            release = macver
-            osname = "macosx"
-
-
-            if (release + '.') < '10.4.' and \
-                    get_config_vars().get('UNIVERSALSDK', '').strip():
-                # The universal build will build fat binaries, but not on
-                # systems before 10.4
-                machine = 'fat'
-
-            elif machine in ('PowerPC', 'Power_Macintosh'):
-                # Pick a sane name for the PPC architecture.
-                machine = 'ppc'
-
-    return "%s-%s-%s" % (osname, release, machine)
+    return 'darwin-10.5-arm'
 
 # get_platform ()