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.
+
- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's
no alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent