bpo-11191: skip unsupported test_distutils case for AIX with xlc (GH-8709)

Command line options for the xlc compiler behave differently from gcc and clang,
so skip this test case for now when xlc is the compiler.

Patch by aixtools (Michael Felt)

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/command/config.py b/command/config.py
index f511b888..aeda408e 100644
--- a/command/config.py
+++ b/command/config.py
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@ class config(Command):
         return self.try_cpp(body="/* No body */", headers=[header],
                             include_dirs=include_dirs)
 
-
 def dump_file(filename, head=None):
     """Dumps a file content into log.info.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_config_cmd.py b/tests/test_config_cmd.py
index 6e566e79..b735fd33 100644
--- a/tests/test_config_cmd.py
+++ b/tests/test_config_cmd.py
@@ -39,11 +39,17 @@ class ConfigTestCase(support.LoggingSilencer,
 
     @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == 'win32', "can't test on Windows")
     def test_search_cpp(self):
+        import shutil
         cmd = missing_compiler_executable(['preprocessor'])
         if cmd is not None:
             self.skipTest('The %r command is not found' % cmd)
         pkg_dir, dist = self.create_dist()
         cmd = config(dist)
+        cmd._check_compiler()
+        compiler = cmd.compiler
+        is_xlc = shutil.which(compiler.preprocessor[0]).startswith("/usr/vac")
+        if is_xlc:
+            self.skipTest('xlc: The -E option overrides the -P, -o, and -qsyntaxonly options')
 
         # simple pattern searches
         match = cmd.search_cpp(pattern='xxx', body='/* xxx */')