[issue25229] distutils doesn't add "-Wl, " prefix to "-R" on Linux if the C compiler isn't named 'gcc'

2015-09-24 Thread Calvin Walton
Changes by Calvin Walton : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40569/distutils-compiler-name.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25229> ___ ___ Pytho

[issue25229] distutils doesn't add "-Wl, " prefix to "-R" on Linux if the C compiler isn't named 'gcc'

2015-09-24 Thread Calvin Walton
Changes by Calvin Walton : -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40568/distutils-compiler-name.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25229] distutils doesn't add "-Wl, " prefix to "-R" on Linux if the C compiler isn't named 'gcc'

2015-09-24 Thread Calvin Walton
New submission from Calvin Walton: On Exherbo, the main C/C++ compilers are named e.g. "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-cc" and "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++", and they are symlinks to either (usually) gcc or (rarely) clang. Since distutils (in unixccompiler.py) is checking for the su