EDIT: cross-posting.
-DTCLTK_SUPPORT=/usr/lib
Passes.
def copy_strip_icu5(ver='53'):
Epic failure on my system which has icu 56.1-2 installed.
s/53/56/g
libqtaudio_alsa.so appears to have mysteriously disappeared in my distro's qt5-multimedia package during the C++11 rebuilds

, xxx that out for testing...
makeself.sh cannot possibly exist

, it only exists as a file to be *executed* at src/Resource_Files/python_pkg/linux_python_gather.py:455
And there endeth the experimentation.
Overall, not bad.