Merge pull request #1805 from dhirschfeld/cythonmagic-distutils-fix

Fixes Cython compilation errors on certain Windows/mingw configurations.

IPython/extensions/cythonmagic.py

@@ -156,7 +156,14 b' class CythonMagics(Magics):'
                 include_dirs = c_include_dirs,
                 extra_compile_args = cflags
             )
-            build_extension = build_ext(Distribution())
+            dist = Distribution()
+            config_files = dist.find_config_files()
+            try: 
+                config_files.remove('setup.cfg')
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+            dist.parse_config_files(config_files)
+            build_extension = build_ext(dist)
             build_extension.finalize_options()
             try:
                 build_extension.extensions = cythonize([extension], ctx=ctx, quiet=quiet)