>> You can solve some of the >> problems by editing the Makefile which it uses to learn the compiler >> options from. > > I don't understand this - do you mean I should edit the Makefile in > the actual distutils package, and somehow use that in my project > instead of setup.py?
No. A python *installation* has a Makefile, in config/Makefile. If you want distutils to use different options, you could edit this Makefile. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list