diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/distutils-common-base.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/distutils-common-base.bbclass
index 824a1b6..94b5fd4 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/distutils-common-base.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/distutils-common-base.bbclass
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 export STAGING_INCDIR
 export STAGING_LIBDIR
 
+# LDSHARED is the ld *command* used to create shared library
+export LDSHARED  = "${CCLD} -shared"
+# LDXXSHARED is the ld *command* used to create shared library of C++
+# objects
+export LDCXXSHARED  = "${CXX} -shared"
+# CCSHARED are the C *flags* used to create objects to go into a shared
+# library (module)
+export CCSHARED  = "-fPIC -DPIC"
+# LINKFORSHARED are the flags passed to the $(CC) command that links
+# the python executable
+export LINKFORSHARED = "{SECURITY_CFLAGS} -Xlinker -export-dynamic"
+
 FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/* ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/*"
 
 FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "\