Add a default implementation of compile() to the base class.
The default implementation calls _compile() to compile individual
files. This method must be implemented by the subclass. This change
factors out most of the remaining common code in all the compilers
except mwerks.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
index 50246b8..f1a50cb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
@@ -644,8 +644,27 @@
Raises CompileError on failure.
"""
- pass
+ # A concrete compiler class can either override this method
+ # entirely or implement _compile().
+
+ macros, objects, extra_postargs, pp_opts, build = \
+ self._setup_compile(output_dir, macros, include_dirs, sources,
+ depends, extra_postargs)
+ cc_args = self._get_cc_args(pp_opts, debug, extra_preargs)
+
+ for obj, (src, ext) in build.items():
+ self._compile(obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts)
+
+ # Return *all* object filenames, not just the ones we just built.
+ return objects
+
+ def _compile(self, obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts):
+ """Compile 'src' to product 'obj'."""
+
+ # A concrete compiler class that does not override compile()
+ # should implement _compile().
+ pass
def create_static_lib (self,
objects,