[issue27596] Build failure with Xcode 8 beta on OSX 10.11

Maxime Belanger added the comment: Glad to hear it! Thanks for the quick followup :). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue27596] Build failure with Xcode 8 beta on OSX 10.11

Ned Deily added the comment: Maxime, there have been a couple of attempts to address this problem. We believe it now finally fixed for all versions of macOS from 10.6 through 10.12 by the changes in Issue29057. Unfortunately, for 2.7,x the last set of fixes were after the release of 2.7.13 i

[issue27596] Build failure with Xcode 8 beta on OSX 10.11

Maxime Belanger added the comment: We're hitting this issue with Python 2.7 (which we deploy on Mac OS X 10.6-10.12). We've worked around it by manually patching `pyconfig.h` to un-define `HAVE_GETENTROPY` before `make`ing. Is a patch is in the works to support weak-linking this symbol (and th

[issue27596] Build failure with Xcode 8 beta on OSX 10.11

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: P.S. This issue is mostly a reminder for myself, Xcode 8 is still in beta and hence patches to CPython to support it are IMHO still out of scope for merging at this time. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27596] Build failure with Xcode 8 beta on OSX 10.11

New submission from Ronald Oussoren: I just noticed that building the Xcode 8 beta 2 on OSX 10.11 results in a link failure of the python binary. Based on a quick glance at the error (before switching back to Xcode 7): 1) macOS 10.12 appears to have a getentropy function that's detected by