[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If

[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

Ned Deily added the comment: Thank you for the PR. I did a quick look at it and added some comments to the PR including wondering whether the root cause of the problematic behavior is elsewhere in Distutils. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker

[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

Isuru Fernando added the comment: This is an issue even without cross-compilations as there is an environment variable for the archiver and therefore the archiver and ranlib can be from 2 different toolchains and leads to error. Ran into this issue in python 3.8 on macOS with an lto build

[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

Alexandru Ardelean added the comment: ping here :) any thoughts/feedback? the fix looks interesting, and I'm also interested in seeing a resolution for this -- nosy: +Alexandru Ardelean ___ Python tracker

[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

Change by Ned Deily : -- components: +Distutils nosy: +dstufft, eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

Change by Roundup Robot : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +15096 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15387 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37916] distutils: allow overriding of the RANLIB command on macOS (darwin)

New submission from Jakub Piotr Cłapa : On a macOS hosts the system ranlib does not understand ELF files so using the "ranlib" command causes errors during cross-compilations. The simplest way to fix it is to pass the RANLIB parameter provided to setup.py through to the distutils compiler