Building Python - how to set include and lib paths?

[Theodor Rash]

Lack Mr G M wrote:

> ...  My problem occurs when I am *building* python
> itself.  There seem to be no way that I can tell it where to look for
> header files and libraries for other packages/utilities (eg: SSL) that I
> have previously installed or how to add these to compilation and linking
> options..  It hard-wires /usr/local/{include,lib} for these.
> 
That's right. I had to patch setup.py to make it find Tcl/Tk which resides
under /opt in my system.
Theo