diff --git a/Modules/Setup.config.in b/Modules/Setup.config.in
index b9b7a1e..7a27e52 100644
--- a/Modules/Setup.config.in
+++ b/Modules/Setup.config.in
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@
 # Threading
 @USE_THREAD_MODULE@thread threadmodule.c
 
+# The signal module
+@USE_SIGNAL_MODULE@signal signalmodule.c
+
 # The rest of the modules previously listed in this file are built
 # by the setup.py script in Python 2.1.
diff --git a/Modules/Setup.dist b/Modules/Setup.dist
index 82380f6..457101d 100644
--- a/Modules/Setup.dist
+++ b/Modules/Setup.dist
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@
 posix posixmodule.c		# posix (UNIX) system calls
 _sre _sre.c			# Fredrik Lundh's new regular expressions
 
-# The signal module can't be compiled as a dynamically linked module.
-signal signalmodule.c           # signal(2)
-
 # The rest of the modules listed in this file are all commented out by
 # default.  Usually they can be detected and built as dynamically
 # loaded modules by the new setup.py script added in Python 2.1.  If