This is a port of r301 from unladen swallow to the py3k-jit branch.

On the Mac, there was an extra '-framework CoreFoundation' that was being passed in python3 (maybe it wasn't there in Python 2.x?).  At any rate, I changed the logic to ignore anything that didn't start with a "-l" or end with a ".a".  Not sure if that's the best answer, or if we should allow -framework and friends to pass through.

I put this under distutils, but it's really targeted towards the py3k-jit branch... which hasn't been updated since June. :-(

Looks like this should've been done against the py3k branch instead.  Looking at py3k, it's changed quite a bit since the last merge into py3k-jit.

Perhaps there is a better way to do this under py3k?  Or it's handled already?

Thanks for the report and patch.  Has this bug been a problem for existing projects?  Would you have links?

> Looks like this should've been done against the py3k branch instead.
Yes, patches should apply to the py3k branch, or to distutils2.  More guidelines at http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/FixingBugs

In this case, Tarek will have to decide whether this is a suitable bugfix for distutils or whether it’s for distutils2 only.  There is a feature freeze in distutils, so we try to change the code only to fix proved bugs, in the less pervasive way possible, and with regression tests.

> Perhaps there is a better way to do this under py3k?  Or it's handled already?
In the absence of a test (unit test, instructions to reproduce or script), it’s hard to tell.

I'm gonna close this.  It was meant to help port some of the Unladen Swallow stuff... but I see that's effectively dead. :-(

This looks like a real bug that could affect other projects than US, so it would be nice to get a test and fix IMO.