--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@
 
 
         # Platform-specific libraries
-        if host_platform == 'linux2':
+        if False:
             # Linux-specific modules
             exts.append( Extension('linuxaudiodev', ['linuxaudiodev.c']) )
         else:
@@ -1787,7 +1787,6 @@
         self.extensions.extend(exts)
 
         # Call the method for detecting whether _tkinter can be compiled
-        self.detect_tkinter(inc_dirs, lib_dirs)
 
         if '_tkinter' not in [e.name for e in self.extensions]:
             missing.append('_tkinter')