[Patches] [ python-Patches-1222585 ] C++ compilation support for distutils

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Patches item #1222585, was opened at 2005-06-17 15:29
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Category: Distutils and setup.py
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Antti Honkela (ahonkela)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: C++ compilation support for distutils

Initial Comment:
Add more proper C++ compilation support to distutils by
propagating information on used language to compiler as
well as linker. The information is used by
unixccompiler, cygwinccompiler and emxccompiler to call
a C++ compiler instead of a C compiler. Options for the
call are formed by as a union of options to both C and
C++ compilers.

The old version worked by accident on some platforms
where you can compile C++ programs by calling the C
compiler (e.g. gcc), but not on others (e.g. Tru64
Unix, probably also others not using gcc).

The more compilcated handling of options than with
linker is necessary to properly support manual
overrides such as "CXX=g++ -foo".

The attached patch is against CVS HEAD, but applies
with minimal changes at least to Python 2.3.

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