Specifying linker and compiler in distutils

[Guillaume SAUZON]

I have the same problem. I try to use gcc instead of the default cc on
my sun machine and distutils doesn't want to know anything. I've tried
something like:

import distutils.sysconfig

old_init_posix = distutils.sysconfig._init_posix

def _init_posix():
    old_init_posix()
    distutils.sysconfig._config_vars['LDSHARED'] = 'gcc -shared'
distutils.sysconfig._init_posix = _init_posix

but it doesn't work !!

Anyone has an idea ?