Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net> writes:

Am I out to lunch on the idea that the logic should be in Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py where the -R is added?

No. The code we have right now is dubious, to say the least. Cheers, M. -- ... so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has _not_ been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp