dnl a macro to check for ability to create python extensions
dnl  AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS([ACTION-IF-POSSIBLE], [ACTION-IF-NOT-POSSIBLE])
dnl function also defines PYTHON_INCLUDES
AC_DEFUN([AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS],
[AC_REQUIRE([AM_PATH_PYTHON])

AC_SUBST(PYTHON_INCLUDES)
AC_SUBST(PYTHON_LIBS)
AC_SUBST(PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS)
AC_SUBST(PYTHON_LDFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(PYTHON_CC)

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for headers required to compile python extensions)
dnl deduce PYTHON_INCLUDES
py_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`
py_exec_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`
if test -x "$PYTHON-config"; then
  PYTHON_INCLUDES=`$PYTHON-config --includes 2>/dev/null`
else
  PYTHON_INCLUDES="-I${py_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
  if test "$py_prefix" != "$py_exec_prefix"; then
    PYTHON_INCLUDES="$PYTHON_INCLUDES -I${py_exec_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
  fi
fi
dnl check if the headers exist:
save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $PYTHON_INCLUDES"
AC_TRY_CPP([#include <Python.h>],dnl
[AC_MSG_RESULT(found)

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for python libraries)


dnl Check whether python was compiled as shared library
link_pymodules_libpython=false;
py_enable_shared=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_config_var; print repr(get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED'))"`
if test $py_enable_shared == 1 ; then
  if test x`uname -s` != xDarwin; then
      PYTHON_LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
      link_pymodules_libpython=true;
  fi
fi

dnl use distutils to get some python configuration variables..
PYTHON_CC=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_config_var('CC')"`
PYTHON_LIB_DEPS=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_config_var('SYSLIBS'), sysconfig.get_config_var('SHLIBS')"`
PYTHON_LIBDIR=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBDIR')"`
PYTHON_LIBPL=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBPL')"`

save_CC="$CC"
save_LIBS="$LIBS"

PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS="-L${PYTHON_LIBDIR} ${PYTHON_LIB_DEPS} -lpython${PYTHON_VERSION}"

CC="$PYTHON_CC"
LIBS="$LIBS $PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS"
AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(Py_Initialize, dnl
         [
            LIBS="$save_LIBS";
            if $link_pymodules_libpython; then
                PYTHON_LIBS="$PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS";
            fi
            AC_MSG_RESULT([$PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS]);
            $1], dnl
[

  PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS="-L${PYTHON_LIBPL} ${PYTHON_LIB_DEPS} -lpython${PYTHON_VERSION}"

  LIBS="$save_LIBS $PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS";
  AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(Py_Initialize, dnl
         [
            LIBS="$save_LIBS";
            if $link_pymodules_libpython; then
                PYTHON_LIBS="$PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS";
            fi
            AC_MSG_RESULT([$PYTHON_EMBED_LIBS]);
            $1], dnl
         AC_MSG_RESULT(not found); $2)
])
CC="$save_CC"

$1],dnl
[AC_MSG_RESULT(not found)
$2])
CPPFLAGS="$save_CPPFLAGS"
])