I also found this bug while using SciPy's weave on Windows XP to compile
some inline c/c++ code.
Thorney's distutils_compiler_quoting.patch fixed the problem for me.
Here is the relevant part of the traceback (I hope):
"""
Found executable C:\Program Files\Topographica\python_topo\mingw\bin\g++.exe
g++.exe:
c:\docume~1\ceball\locals~1\temp\ceball\python25_intermediate\compiler_
894ad5ed761bb51736c6d2b7872dc212\Release\program: No such file or directory
g++.exe:
files\topographica\python_topo\lib\site-packages\weave\scxx\weave_imp.o:
No such file or directory
"""
Chris