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On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>no, it looks for headers and libraries in more directories.  But really, this
>whole testing for paths is wrong. Just use the compiler to search for headers
>and libraries, no need to check these on your own.

You're probably right about that, but reimplementing Python's build system is
out of scope for right now. ;)  For one thing, doing so wouldn't allow me to
backport to older Pythons, which I really want to do.