Added the 'customize_compiler()' function, which plugs in the essential
information about building Python extensions that we discovered in
Python's makefile. Currently only needed on Unix, so does nothing on
other systems.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 53da482..330d3b3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@
# get_python_lib()
+def customize_compiler (compiler):
+ """Do any platform-specific customization of the CCompiler instance
+ 'compiler'. Mainly needed on Unix, so we can plug in the information
+ that varies across Unices and is stored in Python's Makefile.
+ """
+ if compiler.compiler_type == "unix":
+ cc_cmd = CC + ' ' + OPT
+ compiler.set_executables(
+ preprocessor=CC + " -E", # not always!
+ compiler=cc_cmd,
+ compiler_so=cc_cmd + ' ' + CCSHARED,
+ linker_so=LDSHARED,
+ linker_exe=CC)
+
+ compiler.shared_lib_extension = SO
+
+
def get_config_h_filename():
"""Return full pathname of installed config.h file."""
inc_dir = get_python_inc(plat_specific=1)
@@ -260,6 +277,9 @@
# Windows. UnixCCompiler expects to find these values in sysconfig, so
# here they are. The fact that other Windows compilers don't need
# these values is pure luck (hmmm).
+
+ # XXX I think these are now unnecessary...
+
g['CC'] = "cc" # not gcc?
g['RANLIB'] = "ranlib"
g['AR'] = "ar"