[Python-Dev] autoconf question: howto add to CFLAGS and LDFLAGS?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

    >> My hunch is that simply listing library (*.a) arguments on the
    >> gcc command line is a GNU gcc/ld shortcut to the more portable
    >> usage of -L and -l.

    GE> I've never encountered a Unix that wouldn't let you explicity
    GE> give .a files to cc or ld. It's certainly not a GNU invention.

That certainly jives with my experience.  All the other non-gcc C
compilers I've used (admittedly only on *nix) have always accepted
explicit .a files on the command line.

-Barry