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  r77380 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-09 00:57:53 +0100 (Sat, 09 Jan 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 77377 via svnmerge from
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    r77377 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-09 00:42:23 +0100 (Sat, 09 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    Fixed #7617: all flavors of gcc should be recognized now
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index 8bbdb4b329..a33fdf0f7c 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ class UnixCCompiler(CCompiler):
     def library_dir_option(self, dir):
         return "-L" + dir
 
+    def _is_gcc(self, compiler_name):
+        return "gcc" in compiler_name or "g++" in compiler_name
+
     def runtime_library_dir_option(self, dir):
         # XXX Hackish, at the very least.  See Python bug #445902:
         # http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php
@@ -283,13 +286,13 @@ class UnixCCompiler(CCompiler):
             # MacOSX's linker doesn't understand the -R flag at all
             return "-L" + dir
         elif sys.platform[:5] == "hp-ux":
-            if "gcc" in compiler or "g++" in compiler:
+            if self._is_gcc(compiler):
                 return ["-Wl,+s", "-L" + dir]
             return ["+s", "-L" + dir]
         elif sys.platform[:7] == "irix646" or sys.platform[:6] == "osf1V5":
             return ["-rpath", dir]
         else:
-            if compiler[:3] == "gcc" or compiler[:3] == "g++":
+            if self._is_gcc(compiler):
                 # gcc on non-GNU systems does not need -Wl, but can
                 # use it anyway.  Since distutils has always passed in
                 # -Wl whenever gcc was used in the past it is probably