Cross compiling (i386 from amd64) with distutils

[Martin v. Loewis]

>> You can solve some of the
>> problems by editing the Makefile which it uses to learn the compiler
>> options from.
> 
> I don't understand this - do you mean I should edit the Makefile in
> the actual distutils package, and somehow use that in my project
> instead of setup.py?

No. A python *installation* has a Makefile, in config/Makefile. If
you want distutils to use different options, you could edit this
Makefile.

Regards,
Martin