distutils gcc unix

[Martin v. Löwis]

Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon <mdehoon at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp> writes:

> 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.

Perhaps you didn't set the variable correctly?

Regards,
Martin