Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment: distutils would not only have to check for gcc-4.2 vs. clang, but also needs to strip "-arch ppc" from the compiler flags when it is present and it cannot use gcc-4.2. Otherwise you cannot build extensions for the 32-bit python installer on OSX 10.7 with Xcode 4.2.
It is sadly enough not possible to create a binary installer that creates a working installation including building of extensions on all supported versions of OSX without adding special-case code to distutils/packaging. Note that there already is some special-case code to support the universal binary builds on OSX 10.3.9 (which does not have a compiler that can build universal binaries). W.r.t. the patch: is it really necessary to use a subshell to look for the compiler? I'd either walk os.environ['PATH'] myself or use xcodebuild to locate binaries. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13590> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
