distutils gcc unix

[Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon]

> Perhaps you didn't set the variable correctly?
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 

I tried 'set CC=gcc', and also 'setenv CC gcc', on the Unix system. In 
both cases, distutils ends up using cc anyway. This is with tcsh. On my 
Unix system, there is a file called CC in /usr/bin that is a link to a 
compiler. Could that be interfering with distutils? I would guess that 
CC and $CC are different to distutils, and therefore the CC link would 
not cause problems. If it does, I'll try to convince my system 
administrator to remove the link.

--Michiel.

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon <mdehoon at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp> writes:
> 
> 
>>Sorry ... it seems that distutils ignores the CC environment variable
>>(see below). This was done on cygwin. 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?
>>
> 
> You can't take your Windows run as a proof that the variable is
> ignored. On Unix, it is honored.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
>