Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
Backported to 2.4.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index b94d35f..85d515b 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -269,6 +269,8 @@
obj_names = []
for src_name in source_filenames:
(base, ext) = os.path.splitext (src_name)
+ base = os.path.splitdrive(base)[1] # Chop off the drive
+ base = base[os.path.isabs(base):] # If abs, chop off leading /
if ext not in self.src_extensions:
# Better to raise an exception instead of silently continuing
# and later complain about sources and targets having