Merged revisions 77704,77752 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r77704 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-23 10:23:15 +0100 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  taking sysconfig out of distutils
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  r77752 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-26 00:19:56 +0100 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  switched the call order so this call works without suffering from issue #7774
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
index 6455fff..38fc96f 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
                               CompileError, LibError, LinkError)
 from distutils.ccompiler import CCompiler, gen_lib_options
 from distutils import log
-from distutils.util import get_platform
-
 import winreg
 
+_sysconfig = __import__('sysconfig')
+
 RegOpenKeyEx = winreg.OpenKeyEx
 RegEnumKey = winreg.EnumKey
 RegEnumValue = winreg.EnumValue
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
         # multi-init means we would need to check platform same each time...
         assert not self.initialized, "don't init multiple times"
         if plat_name is None:
-            plat_name = get_platform()
+            plat_name = _sysconfig.get_platform()
         # sanity check for platforms to prevent obscure errors later.
         ok_plats = 'win32', 'win-amd64', 'win-ia64'
         if plat_name not in ok_plats:
@@ -348,12 +348,12 @@
             # On AMD64, 'vcvars32.bat amd64' is a native build env; to cross
             # compile use 'x86' (ie, it runs the x86 compiler directly)
             # No idea how itanium handles this, if at all.
-            if plat_name == get_platform() or plat_name == 'win32':
+            if plat_name == _sysconfig.get_platform() or plat_name == 'win32':
                 # native build or cross-compile to win32
                 plat_spec = PLAT_TO_VCVARS[plat_name]
             else:
                 # cross compile from win32 -> some 64bit
-                plat_spec = PLAT_TO_VCVARS[get_platform()] + '_' + \
+                plat_spec = PLAT_TO_VCVARS[_sysconfig.get_platform()] + '_' + \
                             PLAT_TO_VCVARS[plat_name]
 
             vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)