From 915c87d3e5d84c0635c2957f4ae9e96d0ab6705f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:47:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS.

---
 setup.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d768c65bf6..7836d263fb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -302,7 +302,8 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
                 # strip out double-dashes first so that we don't end up with
                 # substituting "--Long" to "-Long" and thus lead to "ong" being
                 # used for a library directory.
-                env_val = re.sub(r'(^|\s+)-(-|(?!%s))' % arg_name[1], '', env_val)
+                env_val = re.sub(r'(^|\s+)-(-|(?!%s))' % arg_name[1],
+                                 ' ', env_val)
                 parser = optparse.OptionParser()
                 # Make sure that allowing args interspersed with options is
                 # allowed
-- 
2.50.1