[Distutils] How do I prepend compile/link switches?

[Todd Miller]

Is there an easy way to insert additional compile/link parameters for a 
Python extension, where the new parameters appear in the command line 
*before* the source/object modules?  It looks like the distutils is 
carrying that "feature" in about half the code, but in the end,  
extra_compile_args and extra_link_args wind up appended to the command 
line.  Is there a work-around, or does more work need to be done to 
distutils to support this?

Todd

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Todd Miller 			jmiller@stsci.edu
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