[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: As of 3.6.5, 2.7.15, and the upcoming 3.7.0. the macOS installers now build with a generic 'gcc' specified, rather than the somewhat confusing 'gcc-4.2' and we also provide a new 10.9+ 64-bit-only installer variant that is built with clang. So I

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: New changeset 93c91ac8f67ef0819ddacdcca12ef0ae88e5802e by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': [2.7] Fix errant NEWS item: bpo-19019 -> bpo-17128 (GH-6470) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/93c91ac8f67ef0819ddacdcca12ef0ae88e5802e --

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Change by Ned Deily : -- pull_requests: +6168 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: New changeset ee8e4b61d6181f5bfadf6ee3d229f0ebda8a6ae9 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': [2.7] Backport macOS universal build and installer fixes from 3.6. (GH-6469) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ee8e4b61d6181f5bfadf6ee3d229f0ebda8a6ae9

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Change by Ned Deily : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6166 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 323f1dcceb73 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/323f1dcceb73 New changeset 689b5c2d6959 by Ned Deily in branch '3.3': Issue #19019: Change the OS

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Andrew Barnert added the comment: Now that Xcode 5 is out, and does not have anything named gcc-4.2 (it _does_ still have something called gcc, which is now a wrapper around clang instead of a wrapper around llvm-gcc-4.2), this seems a lot more critical, because (as far as I can tell) nobody

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: nobody with Xcode 5 can build C extensions for python.org Python installations Andrew, can you elaborate on what problems you or others are seeing? Xcode 5 should not be an issue for users of the current python.org Pythons. When building extension modules, if the

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5e385dcfbd32 by Ned Deily in branch 'default': Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5e385dcfbd32 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Changes by Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com: -- nosy: +ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19019 ___ ___

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

R. David Murray added the comment: I've spun up a 10.6.8 OS X buildbot. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19019 ___ ___

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Changes by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19019 ___ ___

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Skip Montanaro added the comment: If you find it difficult to find people with 10.6 systems to build a Python dmg for that platform, give me a shout. I'm not planning on replacing my system anytime soon. I have 10.6.8 installed, and what I believe to be the last Xcode version to support it,

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks, Skip. At the moment, finding platforms for building and testing is not a problem: I have at hand running versions of the latest releases for 10.3 onwards. :) (Buildbots for automated testing are another issue, though. We have a critical need for buildbots

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Skip Montanaro added the comment: I guess snakebite (http://www.snakebite.net/) never materialized? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19019 ___

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: Snakebite did provide some additional OS X buildbots for a while but, AFAIK, they have been offline for some months now. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19019

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

R. David Murray added the comment: Snakebite is live, and python committers can get shell access on the bots, as originally planned. Some of the bots are offline, but most are running. I don't see any OS X servers in the list, though, unless Antoine deleted them (but there are several other

[issue19019] Investigate using Apple clang for building OS X installers

New submission from Ned Deily: On the python-dev mailing list, Raymond Hettinger asks: I was exercising the alpha two release of 3.4 and noticed that it is still being built under GCC 4.2.1. Is there any reason we have to use an old compiler? Yes, kinda. It's because the 64-bit/32-bit