[New-bugs-announce] [issue27806] 2.7 32-bit builds fail on future releases of OS X due to dependency on deleted header file

[Ned Deily]

New submission from Ned Deily:

Attempts to build Python 2.7 using OS X/macOS public beta versions of the latest command-line tools can fail due to the removal of the system header file for QuickTime/QuickTime.h, one of the long deprecated Carbon APIs.  Currently, Python only attempts to build modules dependent on this file when building for 32-bit archs so this problem typically only affects builds with --with-universal-archs= configure options like "intel" or "intel-32".  It would be nice to preserve the ability to make use of QuickTime on older systems where the header file is still available.  Since the old Python mac modules don't exist in Python 3.x, this is only a 2.7 issue.

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assignee: ned.deily
components: Build, Macintosh
messages: 273159
nosy: ned.deily, ronaldoussoren
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: 2.7 32-bit builds fail on future releases of OS X due to dependency on deleted header file
versions: Python 2.7

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