Mass Deface = 0: return (CONFIG_H_OK, "sys.version mentions 'GCC'") fn = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename() try: # It would probably better to read single lines to search. # But we do this only once, and it is fast enough f = open(fn) try: s = f.read() finally: f.close() except IOError, exc: # if we can't read this file, we cannot say it is wrong # the compiler will complain later about this file as missing return (CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN, "couldn't read '%s': %s" % (fn, exc.strerror)) else: # "pyconfig.h" contains an "#ifdef __GNUC__" or something similar if string.find(s,"__GNUC__") >= 0: return (CONFIG_H_OK, "'%s' mentions '__GNUC__'" % fn) else: return (CONFIG_H_NOTOK, "'%s' does not mention '__GNUC__'" % fn) def get_versions(): """ Try to find out the versions of gcc and ld. If not possible it returns None for it. """ from distutils.version import StrictVersion from distutils.spawn import find_executable import re gcc_exe = find_executable('gcc') if gcc_exe: out = os.popen(gcc_exe + ' -dumpversion','r') try: out_string = out.read() finally: out.close() result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)',out_string) if result: gcc_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1)) else: gcc_version = None else: gcc_version = None # EMX ld has no way of reporting version number, and we use GCC # anyway - so we can link OMF DLLs ld_version = None return (gcc_version, ld_version)