[issue5572] distutils ignores the LIBS configure env var

[Tarek Ziadé <report@bugs.python.org> at psf.upfronthosting.co.za]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

> May be I miss something but I could not found why distutils 
> has to use LIBS to link a module.

It doesn't right now, but depending on the extension you want to build,
you might want to configure it and make sure it is passed to the compiler.

About the patch:

is there a particular reason why you have changed the call to
'set_library' into calls to 'add_library' in build_ext in your patch ?

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versions: +Python 3.1

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