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  r77377 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-09 00:42:23 +0100 (Sat, 09 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed #7617: all flavors of gcc should be recognized now
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 Library
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+- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
+  gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
+  by Arfrever.
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 - Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
   sys.dont_write_bytecode.