In 'link_shared_object()', try to be less sensitive to missing input files
in dry-run mode.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index 0149313..02fbc66 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -202,7 +202,17 @@
# If any of the input object files are newer than the output shared
# object, relink. Again, this is a simplistic dependency check:
# doesn't look at any of the libraries we might be linking with.
- if newer_group (objects, output_filename):
+ # Note that we have to dance around errors comparing timestamps if
+ # we're in dry-run mode (yuck).
+ try:
+ newer = newer_group (objects, output_filename)
+ except OSError:
+ if self.dry_run:
+ newer = 1
+ else:
+ raise
+
+ if newer:
ld_args = self.ldflags_shared + lib_opts + \
objects + ['-o', output_filename]