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Author pitrou
Recipients Arfrever, eric.araujo, jkloth, pitrou, sferencik, tarek
Date 2013-09-13.15:14:13
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> Are you asking *what* distutils does?

Yup :-) I'm not a distutils maintainer, so I hardly know how it does
things internally.

> It tackles the problem completely differently on Windows, Unix, and
> OS X.

Ah... but does it compute the result by itself or simply queries some
kind of external information?
If the former, then it should be simple to give it the right bitness
value (32 vs. 64). If the latter, things will get a bit more...
interesting :-)
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