# HG changeset patch
# Parent 8a0ed9f63c6e339cef6ca74ba31cc73400e122de
Issue #18164: Clarify the embedding docs regarding link options.

diff --git a/Doc/extending/embedding.rst b/Doc/extending/embedding.rst
--- a/Doc/extending/embedding.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/embedding.rst
@@ -307,11 +307,13 @@
 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_vars('LIBS')
+   ['-lpthread -ldl  -lutil']
    >>> sysconfig.get_config_var('LINKFORSHARED')
    '-Xlinker -export-dynamic'