In article <nad-734070.22132908022012 at news.gmane.org>, Ned Deily <nad at 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 at acm.org