[Distutils] How do I prepend compile/link switches?

Is there an easy way to insert additional compile/link parameters for a Python extension, where the new parameters appear in the command line *before* the source/object modules? It looks like the distutils is carrying that "feature" in about half the code, but in the end, extra_compile_args and extra_link_args wind up appended to the command line. Is there a work-around, or does more work need to be done to distutils to support this? Todd -- Todd Miller jmiller@stsci.edu STSCI / SSB