Bug#486654: adonthell: FTBFS on arm and armel

[peter green]

 >make[4]: Entering directory 
`/build/buildd/adonthell-0.3.4.cvs.20080529/src/modules'
 >../../src/adonthell-0.3 -c
 >*** warning: prefs::read_adonthellrc: creating config file failed
 >Fatal Python error: exceptions bootstrapping error.

Something is going wrong with the intitalisation of the embedded python 
interpreter. What I can't figure out is what and why. Moving the call to 
initilise python to the beggining of main didn't make it work yet python 
inits fine when I try it in a seperate test app. Unfortunately the error 
message (which afaict is printed by the python lisb) is pretty much useless.

Any python gurus got any suggestions on how best to troubleshoot this issue?