Feb. 10, 2012
4:39 a.m.
In article <nad-734070.22132908022012@news.gmane.org>, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
However, this may all be a moot point now as I've subsequently proposed a patch to Distutils to smooth over the problem by checking for the case of gcc-4.2 being required but not available and, if so, automatically substituting clang instead. (http://bugs.python.org/issue13590) This trades off a certain risk of using clang for extension modules against the 100% certainty of users being unable to build extension modules.
And I've now committed the patch for 2.7.x and 3.2.x so I no longer consider this a release blocking issue for 2.7.3 and 3.2.3. -- Ned Deily, nad@acm.org