#7068: Fixed the partial renaming that occured in r72594

Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py

@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ class build_ext (Command):
 
         # Setup the CCompiler object that we'll use to do all the
         # compiling and linking
-        self.compiler = new_compiler(compiler=None,
+        self.compiler = new_compiler(compiler=self.compiler,
                                      verbose=self.verbose,
                                      dry_run=self.dry_run,
                                      force=self.force)

Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py

@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ class BuildExtTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
                           sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'))
         so_dir = os.path.dirname(so_file)
         self.assertEquals(so_dir, other_tmp_dir)
-
+        cmd.compiler = None
         cmd.inplace = 0
         cmd.run()
         so_file = cmd.get_outputs()[0]

Misc/NEWS

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7068: Fixed the partial renaming that occured in r72594.
+
 - Issue #7064: Fixed the incompatibility with Setuptools in distutils 
   when running the build_ext command.