macos support (weak?)

i've got some people doing MacOS testing for my extension package. currently support is great under windows and unix. i was under the impression python2.1 shipped with some distutils code that was ready to go for macos? but from the reports i hear this is not the case? unfortunately, i've got not mac to test this on, so it comes to you all second hand. i'm hoping there's a mac user or two in here who can lend some knowledge. the first problem is that it appears distutils does not find the default "site-packages" on its own? distutils.error.DistUtilsPlatformError: OK, where DO site-specific modules go on the Mac? does mac have some sort of PYTHONHOME equivalent it can use to find its home? certainly there must be something because python can find all its own modules and packages. can distutils somehow tap into this knowledge to save the installer from entering the site-packages path when installing? the second problem is a little more serious. my project is using an external setup file to get all the extension compile flags. the library directories are being sent with "-Llibrary/path/lib" this works for windows and unix, but on macos it is creating absolute paths, not relative. so it looks like to get it working the user needs something like -Lmacintosh hd/libs, but the space is throwing things for a loop. does a backslash work before the space? anyways, when given a relative path it is becoming an absolute path lastly, and most important of all, it looks like the libraries being passed in with "-l" are not even being sent through the XML to codewarrior. anyways, my guess is that this is all related to using the external Setup file and loading it with read_setup_file(). is that not really been used for macos stuff? if sending proper Extension objects to the setup function is all thats needed then i can workaround this pretty easy. has anyone had any luck building distutils extensions on macos when needing to link in extra libraries?
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