[issue9437] can't build extensions with non-default ldflags (e.g. -m32)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> These changes cause some regressions:
> - distutils builds third-party extensions with LDFLAGS, which were
> used to build CPython. (This is more important regression.)
>   This problem concerns Python 2.7 and 3.2.

Well, is this a problem? This sounds like the expected behaviour to me.
Especially if Python was packaged was someone else and you don't want
the user to manually set LDFLAGS each time they run a setup.py.

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