[issue26317] Build Problem with GCC + Macintosh OS X 10.11 El Capitain

2016-02-12 Thread Robert P Fischer
Robert P Fischer added the comment: Could this be fixed on 3.5 and 3.6? On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Terry J. Reedy <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > > 3.4 only gets security fixes > > -- > nosy: +terry.reedy >

[issue26317] Build Problem with GCC + Macintosh OS X 10.11 El Capitain

2016-02-11 Thread Robert P Fischer
Robert P Fischer added the comment: > The makefiles use CC throughout and don't look at and OBJC variable. Is > that variable a standard way to specify an ObjC compiler in makefiles? I believe that OBJC and OBJCFLAGS are standard for Autoconf/Automake: https://www.gnu.org/software/au

[issue26317] Build Problem with GCC + Macintosh OS X 10.11 El Capitain

2016-02-09 Thread Robert P Fischer
Robert P Fischer added the comment: I'm trying to compile the Objective-C portions of Python (the Python Launcher app) with clang, not GCC. Why does Python insist on using GCC, even when I set the OBJC env variable to clang? That seems to be a problem that the Python project CAN fix. On Tue

[issue26317] Build Problem with GCC + Macintosh OS X 10.11 El Capitain

2016-02-08 Thread Robert P Fischer
New submission from Robert P Fischer: Changes to OS X 10.11 render GCC's Objective-C compiler useless. However, I want to compile the main part of Python in GCC (because my C++ / Fortran Cython modules use GCC). I tried to build Python (via MacPorts) using Clang for Objective-C and GCC