Sorry, I'm a newbie to distutils and the sig, I need some advice. I am trying to adopt mod_python to distutils. Here is my dilemma: The end result of the mod_python compile is usually a file called mod_python.so. Mod_python.so is NOT a Python module, it's an Apache module. (There is also a Python package to go along with it, but that's irrelevant here I think). Currently, at ./configure time I peek in Modules/Makefile to find out the libs against which Python was linked (which breaks in python 2.1, btw). The actual mod_python.so is built using apxs. Apxs is a tool that comes with Apache to build Apache modules. It knows what compile/linker args the module will need as far as Apache is concerned, and it takes all necessary libs for Python as an argument via a Makefile built by autoconf. I'm thinking that the right way to go is use some fucntionality of distutils that can just list me the necessay libs during ./configure and stick with useing apxs, since the end result isn't a Python but an Apache module... So far I haven't been able to figure out how to get that info (but then I've only spent a day looking at distutils...) Any advice/suggestions would be very much appreciated, Grisha