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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:40:24 +0100
Subject: Re: howto check programs and C libraries
To: David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com>
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On 4 October 2013 10:30, David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm in charge of preparing a computer room for the practices of
> "introduction to programming".
> One of the tasks is checking that from all the computers in the room
> one can execute some programs and link (and compile) against some
> libraries.
> My first idea was using Autotools (or cmake), but as I'm a big fan of
> python, I was thinking how to do that with python, and I don't have a
> clear solution yet.
> I know that distutils includes the distutils.command.config module,
> and I think it could do the job (when properly subclassed).
> Do you have a better idea?

I'm not very experienced with it but perhaps waf would be better for you:
https://code.google.com/p/waf/


Oscar