Compile the files in the same order they are passed to the compiler.
Use case: Sometimes 'compiling' source files (with SWIG, for example)
creates additionl files which included by later sources. The win32all
setup script requires this.
There is no SF item for this, but it was discussed on distutils-sig:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2003-November/003514.html
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
index 751ec06..ebd93c2 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
@@ -691,7 +691,11 @@
depends, extra_postargs)
cc_args = self._get_cc_args(pp_opts, debug, extra_preargs)
- for obj, (src, ext) in build.items():
+ for obj in objects:
+ try:
+ src, ext = build[obj]
+ except KeyError:
+ continue
self._compile(obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts)
# Return *all* object filenames, not just the ones we just built.