[issue26689] Add `has_flag` method to `distutils.CCompiler`

[Sylvain Corlay]

Sylvain Corlay added the comment:

Thanks Ned. I posted a couple of messages on distutils-sig and got little attention.

I think that this feature is very important for detecting whether a compiler supports a certain flag like `-std=c++11` and provide a meaningful error when needed.

CMake has the same feature, implemented in a similar fashion (CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG).

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