reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index 0817908..bf73416 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import os, sys, re
 
+from distutils import sysconfig
 from distutils.dep_util import newer
 from distutils.ccompiler import \
      CCompiler, gen_preprocess_options, gen_lib_options
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@
      DistutilsExecError, CompileError, LibError, LinkError
 from distutils import log
 
-
 # XXX Things not currently handled:
 #   * optimization/debug/warning flags; we just use whatever's in Python's
 #     Makefile and live with it.  Is this adequate?  If not, we might
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 
     if 'ARCHFLAGS' in os.environ and not stripArch:
         # User specified different -arch flags in the environ,
-        # see also the sysconfig
+        # see also distutils.sysconfig
         compiler_so = compiler_so + os.environ['ARCHFLAGS'].split()
 
     if stripSysroot:
@@ -281,9 +281,7 @@
         # this time, there's no way to determine this information from
         # the configuration data stored in the Python installation, so
         # we use this hack.
-        _sysconfig = __import__('sysconfig')
-
-        compiler = os.path.basename(_sysconfig.get_config_var("CC"))
+        compiler = os.path.basename(sysconfig.get_config_var("CC"))
         if sys.platform[:6] == "darwin":
             # MacOSX's linker doesn't understand the -R flag at all
             return "-L" + dir
@@ -293,24 +291,23 @@
             return ["+s", "-L" + dir]
         elif sys.platform[:7] == "irix646" or sys.platform[:6] == "osf1V5":
             return ["-rpath", dir]
-        elif self._is_gcc(compiler):
-            # gcc on non-GNU systems does not need -Wl, but can
-            # use it anyway.  Since distutils has always passed in
-            # -Wl whenever gcc was used in the past it is probably
-            # safest to keep doing so.
-            if _sysconfig.get_config_var("GNULD") == "yes":
-                # GNU ld needs an extra option to get a RUNPATH
-                # instead of just an RPATH.
-                return "-Wl,--enable-new-dtags,-R" + dir
-            else:
-                return "-Wl,-R" + dir
-        elif sys.platform[:3] == "aix":
-            return "-blibpath:" + dir
         else:
-            # No idea how --enable-new-dtags would be passed on to
-            # ld if this system was using GNU ld.  Don't know if a
-            # system like this even exists.
-            return "-R" + dir
+            if self._is_gcc(compiler):
+                # gcc on non-GNU systems does not need -Wl, but can
+                # use it anyway.  Since distutils has always passed in
+                # -Wl whenever gcc was used in the past it is probably
+                # safest to keep doing so.
+                if sysconfig.get_config_var("GNULD") == "yes":
+                    # GNU ld needs an extra option to get a RUNPATH
+                    # instead of just an RPATH.
+                    return "-Wl,--enable-new-dtags,-R" + dir
+                else:
+                    return "-Wl,-R" + dir
+            else:
+                # No idea how --enable-new-dtags would be passed on to
+                # ld if this system was using GNU ld.  Don't know if a
+                # system like this even exists.
+                return "-R" + dir
 
     def library_option(self, lib):
         return "-l" + lib
@@ -324,8 +321,7 @@
             # On OSX users can specify an alternate SDK using
             # '-isysroot', calculate the SDK root if it is specified
             # (and use it further on)
-            _sysconfig = __import__('sysconfig')
-            cflags = _sysconfig.get_config_var('CFLAGS')
+            cflags = sysconfig.get_config_var('CFLAGS')
             m = re.search(r'-isysroot\s+(\S+)', cflags)
             if m is None:
                 sysroot = '/'