[Distutils] Distutils and MinGW with C++

[Michael Droettboom]

FYI: This seems to be a close duplicate for 877165

Seo Sanghyeon wrote:

>I want someone to have a look at SF patch 888839 and check it in
>if it looks fine. It is a one-line patch.
>
>This solves a problem mentioned in following threads:
>http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1978cf9e295b50fb
>http://groups.google.com/groups?th=935cfbfbb092c48a
>
>The first thread suggests linking with libstdc++ or hacking
>distutils.sysconfig to link with g++, which doesn't feel right.
>
>The second thread says linking with libstdc++ hack doesn't work
>any more with 2.3, because 2.3 'fixed' the problem: it
>autodetects C++ file and invokes nonexistent 'cc'.
>
>Regards,
>
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