Merge pull request #970 from CounterPillow/patch-1

Add note about distutils bug.
2013-08-12 10:02:17 -07:00
parent 77ccf46be8 70b96e9c2e
commit 97ffd322fe
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--- a/docs/building.rst
+++ b/docs/building.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ Building with mingw

    python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
    
+If the build fails with complaints about ``-mno-cygwin``, open the file ``Lib/distutils/cygwincompiler.py``
+in an editor of your choice, and remove all mentions of ``-mno-cygwin``. This is a bug in distutils,
+filed as `Issue 12641 <http://bugs.python.org/issue12641>`_. 
+

 Linux
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