[Distutils] Compiler abstractiom model

[Fred L. Drake]

Andrew Dalke, on 29 March 1999, wrote:
 >   As I recall, not all unix-y machines have .so for their shared
 > library extensions.  Eg, looking at the Python "makesetup" script,
 > it seems some machines use ".sl".  I don't think Python exports

Greg Ward writes:
 > I was just using '.so' as an illustration.  I'll have to spend some time
 > grovelling through Python's Makefiles and configure stuff to verify your
 > last statement... I certainly hope that information is available,

  Use the SO variable pulled in from the Makefile; it will be .so or
.sl as appropriate.


  -Fred

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