[Distutils] Switching off optimization for python setup.py config

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> On donderdag, mei 1, 2003, at 15:03 Europe/Amsterdam, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> You can use the distutils.command.config command class to write
>> configuration and test compilation methods. These have complete
>> control over the compiler being used, so switching off optimization
>> for the purpose of configuration should be possible.
> 
> 
> Does this work on non-unix platforms? MacOS9 is on the way out (it 
> definitely won't work there), but I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like 
> this also won't work on Windows or BeOS or whatever.

If you mean the config command, yes, this also works on Windows.
I use it to check for C APIs and to find locations of C libs
and header files.

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