using automake/autoconf to build extension module?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     Martin> That does not necessary contradict each other. You can easily
>     Martin> embed Python fragments into a configure.in, to determine the
>     Martin> appropriate command line options.
> 
> I'll take your word for it, but it irks me to no end that distutils can't do
> dependencies.  Having that means I have to hack things to force files to be
> deleted I shouldn't have to.  If I can use make as the build tool I'd much
> prefer that.

If you want to use traditional make for dependencies and to invoke
commands, that's fine. All I'm saying is that you should use the same
command line options that distutils would use, instead of trusting,
say, libtool, to get it right.

Regards,
Martin