[C++-sig] OT(?): Building boost::python with distutils?

[Hans Meine]

Hi!

David Abrahams once asked on the distutils list whether distutils could be 
used to build shared libraries (like libboost_python.so) which are no 
extension modules:
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2002-October/002966.html

Apparently, the answers all contain more or less hackish ways around using 
distutils.Extension(..)

I am sorry if this is more or less off-topic here, but does anybody know 
whether there is a solution to that problem?  (To draw a real connection to 
BPL: This is about distributing BPL extension modules which all link against 
a common shared library.)

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