From a04913a51327c64f807e85119fd750485bbceb0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:33:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add type declaration for runtime_library_dir_option, making
 explicit the different return types one might expect.

---
 distutils/unixccompiler.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index caf4cd33..a54481c0 100644
--- a/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
   * link shared library handled by 'cc -shared'
 """
 
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import itertools
 import os
 import re
@@ -281,7 +283,7 @@ def _is_gcc(self):
         compiler = os.path.basename(shlex.split(cc_var)[0])
         return "gcc" in compiler or "g++" in compiler
 
-    def runtime_library_dir_option(self, dir):
+    def runtime_library_dir_option(self, dir: str) -> str | list[str]:
         # XXX Hackish, at the very least.  See Python bug #445902:
         # https://bugs.python.org/issue445902
         # Linkers on different platforms need different options to