[Python-Dev] Where is this flag coming from?

[Michael Hudson]

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.

-- 
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  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