[C++-sig] How to configure makefile for different build platforms

[David Aldrich]

> You can also extract this information from various methods in the distutils
> package.  Even if you aren't using distutils to control the build, you could ask
> Python itself to print out the configuration variables.  For instance:
> 
> python -c "import distutils.sysconfig; print
> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()"
> 
> That should give you the Python include directory.  There are other methods
> to get library names, compiler flags, and other things.

Hi Jim

That is very useful. Thank you.

How could I get the major version number (e.g. 2.4) so that I can build the library type:

    EXTRA_LIBS_R+=-lpython2.4

BR

David