[issue34897] distutils test errors when CXX is not set

[Jan Pieczkowski]

Jan Pieczkowski <code at physicali.st> added the comment:

This issue also still affects Python versions 3.6.15 and 3.7.12

IMHO it would make sense to backport this patch to the 3.6 and 3.7 branches, especially as it only affects one line of code and doesn't seem to affect anything else, but solves the same issue for prior python versions as the merged patch did for 3.8+

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