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authorNed Deily <nad@acm.org>2013-06-24 21:22:09 (GMT)
committerNed Deily <nad@acm.org>2013-06-24 21:22:09 (GMT)
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Issue #18164: Clarify the embedding docs regarding link options.
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@@ -307,11 +307,13 @@ 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:
+combine together. For example:
.. code-block:: python
>>> import sysconfig
+ >>> sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBS')
+ '-lpthread -ldl -lutil'
>>> sysconfig.get_config_var('LINKFORSHARED')
'-Xlinker -export-dynamic'