Lyle Johnson: added stubs for the four miscellaneous methods that must be
implemented by subclasses, since they are needed by 'gen_lib_options()'.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
index 51f5ae0..4222176 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
@@ -575,6 +575,33 @@
+ # -- Miscellaneous methods -----------------------------------------
+ # These are all used by the 'gen_lib_options() function; there is
+ # no appropriate default implementation so subclasses should
+ # implement all of these.
+
+ def library_dir_option (self, dir):
+ """Return the compiler option to add 'dir' to the list of directories
+ searched for libraries."""
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+ def runtime_library_dir_option (self, dir):
+ """Return the compiler option to add 'dir' to the list of directories
+ searched for runtime libraries."""
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+ def library_option (self, lib):
+ """Return the compiler option to add 'dir' to the list of libraries
+ linked into the shared library or executable."""
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+ def find_library_file (self, dirs, lib):
+ """Search the specified list of directories for a static or shared
+ library file 'lib' and return the full path to that file. Return
+ None if it wasn't found in any of the specified directories."""
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+
# -- Filename generation methods -----------------------------------
# The default implementation of the filename generating methods are