distutils gcc unix

[Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon]

Well my real problem is how to get distutils to use gcc on unix systems.
As far as I know, I can only use --compiler='unix' on unix systems, and 
for some reason my distutils ignores the environment variable CC. So I 
always end up with the cc compiler, even if I set CC=gcc.

Chris Liechti wrote:

> Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon <mdehoon at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote in
> news:3D42D972.2060607 at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp: 
> 
> 
>>Sorry ... it seems that distutils ignores the CC environment variable 
>>(see below). This was done on cygwin.
>>
> 
> there is a note somewhere in the docs that you can use --compiler=mingw32 
> (which works with gcc/cygwin) the doc also says how to use the borland 
> compiler.
> i always have trouble to find the respecive note, but i _know_ it's 
> somewhere in the docs that get installed with python. :-(
> 
> 
>>On Unix, the CC variable was
>>also ignored using setenv CC gcc, and also with set CC=gcc. Here
>>distutils defaulted to the standard cc compiler. I am guessing that it
>>took the compiler name from the Makefile in /lib/python2.2/config.
>>Any ideas?
>>Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
>>--Michiel.