unicode, and a few other compensating changes, e.g. str <- unicode,
chr <- unichr, and repr() of a unicode string no longer starts
with 'u'. Lots of unit tests are broken, but some basic things
work, in particular distutils works so the extensions can be built,
and test_builtin.py works.
[#413582] g++ must be called for c++ extensions
[#454030] distutils cannot link C++ code with GCC
topdir = "Lib/distutils"
* bcppcompiler.py
(BCPPCompiler.create_static_lib): Fixed prototype, removing extra_preargs
and extra_postargs parameters. Included target_lang parameter.
(BCPPCompiler.link): Included target_lang parameter.
* msvccompiler.py
(MSVCCompiler.create_static_lib): Fixed prototype, removing extra_preargs
and extra_postargs parameters. Included target_lang parameter.
(MSVCCompiler.link): Included target_lang parameter.
* ccompiler.py
(CCompiler): New language_map and language_order attributes, used by
CCompiler.detect_language().
(CCompiler.detect_language): New method, will return the language of
a given source, or list of sources. Individual source language is
detected using the language_map dict. When mixed sources are used,
language_order will stablish the language precedence.
(CCompiler.create_static_lib, CCompiler.link, CCompiler.link_executable,
CCompiler.link_shared_object, CCompiler.link_shared_lib):
Inlcuded target_lang parameter.
* cygwinccompiler.py
(CygwinCCompiler.link): Included target_lang parameter.
* emxccompiler.py
(EMXCCompiler.link): Included target_lang parameter.
* mwerkscompiler.py
(MWerksCompiler.link): Included target_lang parameter.
* extension.py
(Extension.__init__): New 'language' parameter/attribute, initialized
to None by default. If provided will overlap the automatic detection
made by CCompiler.detect_language(), in build_ext command.
* sysconfig.py
(customize_compiler): Check Makefile for CXX option, and also the
environment variable CXX. Use the resulting value in the 'compiler_cxx'
parameter of compiler.set_executables().
* unixccompiler.py
(UnixCCompiler): Included 'compiler_cxx' in executables dict, defaulting
to 'cc'.
(UnixCCompiler.create_static_lib): Included target_lang parameter.
(UnixCCompiler.link): Included target_lang parameter, and made
linker command use compiler_cxx, if target_lang is 'c++'.
* command/build_ext.py
(build_ext.build_extension): Pass new ext.language attribute
to compiler.link_shared_object()'s target_lang parameter. If
ext.language is not provided, detect language using
compiler.detect_language(sources) instead.
* command/config.py
(config._link): Pass already available lang parameter as target_lang
parameter of compiler.link_executable().
easier for people porting Makefile.pre.in-based extensions to Distutils.
Also loosened argument-checking in Extension constructor to make life
easier for 'read_setup_file()'.