Here is the latest bdist_rpm patch. It gives build_ext the ability to recognize and use the CFLAGS environment variable, it then sets CFLAGS to RPM_OPT_FLAGS in the spec file. It adds an option '--no-rpm-opt-flags' which will cause a spec file to be generated that does not set CFLAGS, this option is turned on automatically for pure python distributions. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware PyNcurses ncurses binding for Python http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net