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Subject: Re: Ctypes can't find libc on Solaris
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> .... After worming around distutils' inability to use
> environment variables to add command line flags to gcc, I'm stuck with
> an error trying to locate libc:
...

Should have poked around bugs.python.org first.  This was reported,
with a patch that works for me: http://bugs.python.org/issue5289

Sorry for the noise...

S