distutils unix gcc, still trying

[A.M. Kuchling]

In article <3D59B2CB.4030809 at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote:
> I verified what customize_compiler is actually doing. It calls 
> get_config_vars, which calls _init_posix, which calls parse_makefile. 
> This then finds the arguments supplied to get_config_vars from the 
> python Makefile. So where does it check for the environment variables?

It's in Python's setup.py script, around line 150 in the current CVS.

--amk