PyTables/PyTables — comment on commit aff6e7922c4bf969dc67f62267cc0de8aff6e99f
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By juliantaylor:

other ways available to get the path currently are gcc -print-multiarch, gcc -print-search-dirs and dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH
all of them are debian specific (except maybe print-search-dirs) so not really applicable for use in pytables.