On 2016-10-06 11:04, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 01:36 am, Ned Deily wrote: >> On 2016-10-02 00:25, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 01:58 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >>>> Hmm, I've possibly missed something here, which may indicate a >>>> problem. Why can't your existing machines build? Is it because they >>>> have too-old versions of tools, and if so, which? >>> Yes, this. You need gcc 4.8 or better to build CPython 3.6, and the most >>> recent any of my systems support is 4.4. >> >> I'm using a gcc 4.2 to build 3.6. > > How on earth do you do that? What magic incantations are you using? > > I understand that Python 3.6 is now using C99 features that aren't available > before gcc 4.8.
3.6 is only using a subset of the C99 features that were proposed in the earlier python-dev discussion. In this case, I am using the Apple version of GNU gcc-4.2 that shipped with Xcode 3 on OS X 10.5 and 10.6. I haven't tried it with other versions of gcc-4.2 but it's worth trying. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
