Restore implicit expectation that importing unixccompiler makes distutils.ccompiler available.

jaraco · jaraco · commit b6a539a76208 · 2025-03-16T19:08:28.000-04:00
Closes pypa/setuptools#4871
diff --git a/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+import importlib
+
 from .compilers.C import unix
 
 UnixCCompiler = unix.Compiler
+
+# ensure import of unixccompiler implies ccompiler imported
+# (pypa/setuptools#4871)
+importlib.import_module('distutils.ccompiler')
diff --git a/newsfragments/4871.bugfix.rst b/newsfragments/4871.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Restored implicit distutils.ccompiler import for g-ir-scanner.

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