[issue38961] Flaky detection of compiler vendor

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[issue38961] Flaky detection of compiler vendor

New submission from John-Mark : The `configure` script for building what appears to be any version of python (I've manually checked 2.7, 3.6.6, and master) uses simple substring-in-path checks to determine the compiler vendor. This is problematic because it is very easy for it to produce very