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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
index 15965864999..bd61bc56f32 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ class build_ext(Command):
# Setup the CCompiler object that we'll use to do all the
# compiling and linking
- self.compiler = new_compiler(compiler=None,
+ self.compiler = new_compiler(compiler=self.compiler,
verbose=self.verbose,
dry_run=self.dry_run,
force=self.force)
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py
index f992928d0a0..b7cdc20aa47 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ class BuildExtTestCase(TempdirManager,
self.assertEquals(so_dir, other_tmp_dir)
cmd.inplace = 0
+ cmd.compiler = None
cmd.run()
so_file = cmd.get_outputs()[0]
self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(so_file))
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4103a257df2..094043d88b9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #2698: The --compiler ignored was ignored for distutils' build_ext.
+
- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
with Tcl/Tk-8.5.