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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/bcppcompiler.py34
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/bcppcompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/bcppcompiler.py
index 7daa597..1d897de 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/bcppcompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/bcppcompiler.py
@@ -357,28 +357,26 @@ class BCPPCompiler(CCompiler) :
def find_library_file (self, dirs, lib, debug=0):
- # find library file
+ # List of effective library names to try, in order of preference:
# bcpp_xxx.lib is better than xxx.lib
# and xxx_d.lib is better than xxx.lib if debug is set
+ #
+ # The "bcpp_" prefix is to handle a Python installation for people
+ # with multiple compilers (primarily Distutils hackers, I suspect
+ # ;-). The idea is they'd have one static library for each
+ # compiler they care about, since (almost?) every Windows compiler
+ # seems to have a different format for static libraries.
+ if debug:
+ dlib = (lib + "_d")
+ try_names = ("bcpp_" + dlib, "bcpp_" + lib, dlib, lib)
+ else:
+ try_names = ("bcpp_" + lib, lib)
+
for dir in dirs:
- if debug:
- libfile = os.path.join (
- dir, self.library_filename ("bcpp_" + lib + "_d"))
- if os.path.exists (libfile):
+ for name in try_names:
+ libfile = os.path.join(dir, self.library_filename(name))
+ if os.path.exists(libfile):
return libfile
- libfile = os.path.join (
- dir, self.library_filename ("bcpp_" + lib))
- if os.path.exists (libfile):
- return libfile
- if debug:
- libfile = os.path.join (
- dir, self.library_filename(lib + '_d'))
- if os.path.exists (libfile):
- return libfile
- libfile = os.path.join (dir, self.library_filename (lib))
- if os.path.exists (libfile):
- return libfile
-
else:
# Oops, didn't find it in *any* of 'dirs'
return None