reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
index fd79aec..62a4c5b 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
@@ -21,13 +21,12 @@
 
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
-import os, sys, copy
-from warnings import warn
-
+import os,sys,copy
+from distutils.ccompiler import gen_preprocess_options, gen_lib_options
 from distutils.unixccompiler import UnixCCompiler
 from distutils.file_util import write_file
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsExecError, CompileError, UnknownFileError
-from distutils.util import get_compiler_versions
+from distutils import log
 
 class EMXCCompiler (UnixCCompiler):
 
@@ -56,8 +55,8 @@
                 ("Reason: %s." % details) +
                 "Compiling may fail because of undefined preprocessor macros.")
 
-        gcc_version, ld_version, dllwrap_version = get_compiler_versions()
-        self.gcc_version, self.ld_version = gcc_version, ld_version
+        (self.gcc_version, self.ld_version) = \
+            get_versions()
         self.debug_print(self.compiler_type + ": gcc %s, ld %s\n" %
                          (self.gcc_version,
                           self.ld_version) )
@@ -292,11 +291,23 @@
     """ Try to find out the versions of gcc and ld.
         If not possible it returns None for it.
     """
-    warn("'distutils.emxccompiler.get_versions' is deprecated "
-         "use 'distutils.util.get_compiler_versions' instead",
-         DeprecationWarning)
+    from distutils.version import StrictVersion
+    from distutils.spawn import find_executable
+    import re
 
+    gcc_exe = find_executable('gcc')
+    if gcc_exe:
+        out = os.popen(gcc_exe + ' -dumpversion','r')
+        out_string = out.read()
+        out.close()
+        result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)', out_string, re.ASCII)
+        if result:
+            gcc_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
+        else:
+            gcc_version = None
+    else:
+        gcc_version = None
     # EMX ld has no way of reporting version number, and we use GCC
     # anyway - so we can link OMF DLLs
-    gcc_version, ld_version, dllwrap_version = get_compiler_versions()
-    return gcc_version, None
+    ld_version = None
+    return (gcc_version, ld_version)