Hi!

I am trying to use distutils.command's build_clib to compile C++11 code but had to monkey patch build_clib to support the extra_compile_args "-std=c++11", see my_build_libraries in http://sageregina.unhyperbolic.org/setup.py .

As you can see, it was only adding the line

            extra_postargs = build_info.get('extra_compile_args'))

objects = self.compiler.compile(
            sources,
            output_dir=self.build_temp,
            macros=macros,
            include_dirs=include_dirs,
            ...)

in build_clib.py. Could you make this change to distutils so that is available for everyone and I can eventually stop monkey-patching?

Best wishes,

    Matthias Goerner