Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to emulate some features of the GNU build tools with distutils (or related python module). In particular, I have a C-written Python module and I would like to try compiling very short (few lines) C programs in order to check that third-party C libraries the python module links to has given features. I suspect that I am not the first to ask, but I could not find much information about that topic on the net. Any help/pointer would be appreciated, L.