MacOSX linker doesn't understand -R flag at all, no matter how you feed it
the flag. Punt and return a -L flag instead (returning "" gums up the
command to be forked).
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index 831717b..692e3eb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -196,7 +196,10 @@
# the configuration data stored in the Python installation, so
# we use this hack.
compiler = os.path.basename(sysconfig.get_config_var("CC"))
- if compiler == "gcc" or compiler == "g++":
+ if sys.platform[:6] == "darwin":
+ # MacOSX's linker doesn't understand the -R flag at all
+ return "-L" + dir
+ elif compiler == "gcc" or compiler == "g++":
return "-Wl,-R" + dir
else:
return "-R" + dir