[Distutils] Question about libraries

[Thomas Heller]

> I want to use distutils to build an ordinary C library for subsequent
> use in other parts of my build. I have a setup file that contains this
> call to setup:
> 
> setup (name = "libcmds",
>        ...
>        libraries = [
>                       ('cdms',
>                           {'sources': sourcelist,
>                            'macros': macros,
>                            'include_dirs': include_dirs,
>                            'library_dirs': library_dirs,
>                           }
>                       ),
>                   ]
>  This works and I can build the library libcdms.a, but it is put in
> build/temp.linux-i686-2.2, hardly the kind of place I want to refer to
> in other parts of my build.

Isn't this directory automatically appended to the library_dirs by distutils?

Thomas