$NetBSD: patch-ao,v 1.2 2010/05/02 14:09:12 wiz Exp $

--- Lib/distutils/util.py.orig	2010-01-08 23:27:23.000000000 +0000
+++ Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ def get_platform ():
         m = rel_re.match(release)
         if m:
             release = m.group()
+    elif osname[:9] == "dragonfly":
+        release = string.split(release, "-")[0]
     elif osname[:6] == "darwin":
         #
         # For our purposes, we'll assume that the system version from