[Distutils] How to find out the default include path

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Pearu Peterson wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> 
>>Pearu Peterson wrote:
> 
> 
>>>If it matters, add also <sys.prefix>/lib, <sys.prefix>/include (some
>>>people install Python with --prefix=$HOME, for example).
>>
>>Well, these paths are needed to find 3rd party libs to link
>>against, so I'd suspect that Python dirs are not necessary
>>on the default paths.
> 
> 
> Actually, people may install also 3rd party libs to $HOME. In fact,
> sometimes Python itself can be considered as one.
> 
> I do it consistently when I happen to work on a system where I don't have
> root permissions and sysadmins are so slow to install anything from the 
> 3rd party.

Ok, good argument. I'll add that as well, then.

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