Backport of akuchling's checkin of 1.10:

Suggested by Pete Shinners: treat .m and .mm files as source code.

Question for Jack Jansen: is this reasonable?

Candidate for 2.2 release branch (if Jack thinks it's OK).

Not sure how this wasn't on the branch already, seeing as I thought it
went into 2.2.

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/extension.py b/Lib/distutils/extension.py
index fbae7c5226af2e6e99c568376bd3c8017e5849c4..a31ccbce8da5d83e319f1d44e32c217d518d9be1 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/extension.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/extension.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def read_setup_file (filename):
             suffix = os.path.splitext(word)[1]
             switch = word[0:2] ; value = word[2:]
 
-            if suffix in (".c", ".cc", ".cpp", ".cxx", ".c++"):
+            if suffix in (".c", ".cc", ".cpp", ".cxx", ".c++", ".m", ".mm"):
                 # hmm, should we do something about C vs. C++ sources?
                 # or leave it up to the CCompiler implementation to
                 # worry about?