Hello, http://bugs.python.org/issue4359 reminds me that Distutils reads build files like Makefile or pyconfig.h to get some environment variables through the sysconfig module at *runtime*. This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped with python but python-devel. (like Fedora) Since I am already working on the refactoring of this distutils/sysconfig module, so it lands in a stdlib module together with some elements from site.py (see a previous mail on the topic, and my tarek_sysconfig branch - work in progress), I was wondering if we couldn't make this module a template, and inject at its beginning new values extracted from Makefile and pyconfig.h. This could happen when "configure" is called, Regards, Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! | 开源传万世，因有你参与