Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > the problem is not Apple's in the sense that we enforce the use of the build > compiler. Well, yes, and this is a known limitation, so we could argue that Apple broke distutils. But...
> Without a fix along this line would mean that essentially *every* user of > python.org Pythons on > the latest releases of OS X would have to ensure that the environment > variable override is in > place for every Distutils install of an extension module. That strikes me as > unacceptable. > Distutils already does equally magical things. Given that we did similar changes to support Debian multiarch instead of having people use environment variables, I change my position and support your patch. (Comments on Rietveld.) ---------- _______________________________________ 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
