commit a34dbe0fdcfd7cf75c8d339542183d58cacfce8b
author Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> Tue Feb 27 19:13:15 2001 +0000
committer Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> Tue Feb 27 19:13:15 2001 +0000
tree 5a3c5ccf328a6fc921727a4e203af7470e12bbed
parent 4db62b1e14ed909d4bd574633a11c45455c76beb

Patch #403947: On Cygwin, use the Unix compiler class, and not
 the Cygwin-specific compiler class.

 (According to Jason Tishler, cygwinccompiler needs some work to
  handle the differences in Cygwin- and MSVC-Python. Makefile and
  config files are currently ignored by cygwinccompiler, as it was
  written to support cygwin for extensions which are intended to be
  used with the standard MSVC built Python.)

Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
index 0a30640..4a282d4 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
@@ -842,7 +842,10 @@
 _default_compilers = (
 
     # Platform string mappings
-    ('cygwin.*', 'cygwin'),
+
+    # on a cygwin built python we can use gcc like an ordinary UNIXish
+    # compiler
+    ('cygwin.*', 'unix'),
     
     # OS name mappings
     ('posix', 'unix'),