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If I knew where gcc/and-its-options were being ascertained, config'd, and used, then I could theoretically intervene and have it point to my gcc and use my settings for it...

Again, Philip, thanks a bunch for all the time you've spent helping me on this. /venkat

No problem, just remember that neither distutils nor setuptools officially provide any support whatsoever for cross-compilation. If you actually succeed in getting something to work, I suggest writing up a HowTo or at least a description of what you ended up doing, so that others can benefit from your trials.

I'm getting closer to this, albeit in baby steps... :-) Will surely write one up - as soon as I have this working. If this doesn't workout, may have to just unpack the distros, use makefiles for each and build the cross .so's that ways... Was hoping to levelrage all the work that has already gone into distutils / setuptools. Thanks again, /venkat