[Distutils] Bug/problem in v1.0 with python 1.6.

[Roy Dragseth]

Hi, I'm trying to build an extension written in c on a system with the 
following characteristics:

OS:          HP-UX 10.20
Python:      v1.6
Distutils:   v1.0
gcc:         v2.95.2 with hp-ux ld (not gnu ld)

Python is built with gcc, and the problem is that gcc --shared doesn't
work (ok, this is probably me messing up gcc).  Python seems to be
aware of this as it builds the shared modules using ld -b directly,
shouldn't distutils do the same thing?  It used to, I had no problem
building this extension with python 1.5.2 and distutils 0.8.2.

Any hints greatly appreciated,
Roy.


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