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Author yan12125
Recipients Santiago Castro, christian.heimes, ned.deily, yan12125, zach.ware
Date 2016-09-27.05:09:04
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Yes pkg-config is not ubiquitous. My idea is using it as a fallback, so that non-standard paths can be picked up easily.

> Note the bootstrap issue with that idea though; you'll need to make sure _posixsubprocess is built before importing subprocess.

distutils.spawn.spawn or os.system can be used. setup.py uses the latter.
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