[issue44093] compiler detection on macOS seems to be incorrect

Change by Ned Deily : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +24932 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/26341 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue44093] compiler detection on macOS seems to be incorrect

Change by Ned Deily : -- assignee: -> ned.deily components: +macOS nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue44093] compiler detection on macOS seems to be incorrect

New submission from Rishav Kundu : On macOS devices, the configure script seems to always detect gcc, even though Apple does not ship with gcc — the gcc binary is simply a wrapper around clang (probably llvm-gcc?) I believe the issue is with these lines.