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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2012-01-15 01:31:58 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2012-01-15 01:31:58 (GMT)
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Markup improvements for the embedding CPython doc patch from #1040439
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@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ it.
To find out the required compiler and linker flags, you can execute the
:file:`python{X.Y}-config` script which is generated as part of the
-installation process (a generic :file:`python3-config` script is also
+installation process (a :file:`python3-config` script may also be
available). This script has several options, of which the following will
be directly useful to you:
@@ -294,9 +294,10 @@ be directly useful to you:
example.
If this procedure doesn't work for you (it is not guaranteed to work for
-all Unix-like platforms; however, we welcome bug reports at
-http://bugs.python.org), you will have to read your system's documentation
-about dynamic linking and/or examine Python's Makefile and compilation
+all Unix-like platforms; however, we welcome :ref:`bug reports <reporting-bugs>`)
+you will have to read your system's documentation about dynamic linking and/or
+examine Python's :file:`Makefile` (use :func:`sysconfig.get_makefile_filename`
+to find its location) and compilation
options. In this case, the :mod:`sysconfig` module is a useful tool to
programmatically extract the configuration values that you will want to
combine together::