"George Sakkis" wrote: > I'm trying to build a C++ extension on Cygwin, but it fails because > distutils invokes gcc instead of g++. Looking into distutils internals, > it turns out that compilation is assumed to be independent of the > target language, while linking is not (CCompiler.compile() doesn't take > a target_lang argument but CCompiler.link() does). Is there a good > reason for this ?
Is this a coincidence or what ? A patch for exactly this issue was posted just five days ago (http://python.org/sf/1222585), so it should be fixed in 2.5. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list