[Distutils] autotools-like AC_COMPILE_IFELSE

[Laurent Gautier]

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to emulate some features of the
GNU build tools with distutils (or related python module).

In particular, I have a C-written Python module and I would like to
try compiling very short (few lines) C programs in order to check that
third-party C libraries the python module
links to has given features.

I suspect that I am not the first to ask, but I could not find much
information about that topic on the net.

Any help/pointer would be appreciated,


L.