Emergency Self-Construct

@r-barnes apologies here also, my schedule ended up changing quite a bit and as you will have noticed, @apmasell has taken over the LLVM front and we are (hopefully) going...

> It sounds like it's more of a feature request for s390x support? It seems that we'd also need to start testing and potentially bug fixing on s390x before we...

> Are there any reasons for not merging this one just for llvmlite ? All tests pass on 3.11.0rc2 (which is the default /bin/python on fedora 37). Our build and...

FWIW: this had a conflict against `main` - I have rebased this now and fixed the conflict.

> > Hence we are currently blocked by that. We hope to get this merged up and a new version released as soon as the required packages become available. >...

@oscargus we are starting to prep for 3.11 support slowly. We haven't noticed any failures in our initial testing. Do you have an idea where and why this may break...

> I do not really recall anything other than what I stated originally. It uses `configparser.SafeConfigParser` which apparently is removed in Python 3.11. OK, we will have to double check....

> Note that it doesn't state 3.11, but it is the latest available version (0.27) and it doesn't use `SafeConfigParser`. Perhaps then it is better to wait for a 3.11...

> Maybe. They just added formal testing for 3.11 [python-versioneer/python-versioneer#348](https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/pull/348) > > All I can say is that other packages have upgraded and works well. Here is the PR that...

> Your call for sure. > > (I usually update dependencies for the sake of it every now and then, unless it breaks something, but there is of course also...