def check_config_h():
    """Check if the current Python installation appears amenable to building
    extensions with GCC.

    Returns a tuple (status, details), where 'status' is one of the following
    constants:

    - CONFIG_H_OK: all is well, go ahead and compile
    - CONFIG_H_NOTOK: doesn't look good
    - CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN: not sure -- unable to read pyconfig.h

    'details' is a human-readable string explaining the situation.

    Note there are two ways to conclude "OK": either 'sys.version' contains
    the string "GCC" (implying that this Python was built with GCC), or the
    installed "pyconfig.h" contains the string "__GNUC__".
    """

    # XXX since this function also checks sys.version, it's not strictly a
    # "pyconfig.h" check -- should probably be renamed...

    from distutils import sysconfig

    # if sys.version contains GCC then python was compiled with GCC, and the
    # pyconfig.h file should be OK
    if "GCC" in sys.version:
        return CONFIG_H_OK, "sys.version mentions 'GCC'"

    # Clang would also work
    if "Clang" in sys.version:
        return CONFIG_H_OK, "sys.version mentions 'Clang'"

    # let's see if __GNUC__ is mentioned in python.h
    fn = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename()
    try:
        config_h = open(fn)
        try:
            if "__GNUC__" in config_h.read():
                return CONFIG_H_OK, "'%s' mentions '__GNUC__'" % fn
            else:
                return CONFIG_H_NOTOK, "'%s' does not mention '__GNUC__'" % fn
        finally:
            config_h.close()
    except OSError as exc:
        return (CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN, "couldn't read '{}': {}".format(fn, exc.strerror))
Check if the current Python installation appears amenable to building
    extensions with GCC.

    Returns a tuple (status, details), where 'status' is one of the following
    constants:

    - CONFIG_H_OK: all is well, go ahead and compile
    - CONFIG_H_NOTOK: doesn't look good
    - CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN: not sure -- unable to read pyconfig.h

    'details' is a human-readable string explaining the situation.

    Note there are two ways to conclude "OK": either 'sys.version' contains
    the string "GCC" (implying that this Python was built with GCC), or the
    installed "pyconfig.h" contains the string "__GNUC__".
    
product/gradle-plugin/src/main/python/setuptools/_distutils/cygwinccompiler.py