Index: Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
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--- Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py	(revision 73692)
+++ Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py	(working copy)
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
 
         # 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)