[Distutils] Compiler abstractiom model

[Fred L. Drake]

Greg Stein writes:
 > Trying linking against Oracle sometime. You're *required* to list a
 > library multiple times. It's really nasty -- they've created all kinds
 > of inter-dependencies between their libraries.

  And reading their example Makefile is enough to given even the most
diehard Unix hacker hernias; I wonder how may developers they
hospitalize to develop it!


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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