Function _remove_unsupported_archs

Lib/_osx_support.py:274–311

Remove any unsupported archs from config vars

(_config_vars)

def _remove_unsupported_archs(_config_vars):
    """Remove any unsupported archs from config vars"""
    # Different Xcode releases support different sets for '-arch'
    # flags. In particular, Xcode 4.x no longer supports the
    # PPC architectures.
    #
    # This code automatically removes '-arch ppc' and '-arch ppc64'
    # when these are not supported. That makes it possible to
    # build extensions on OSX 10.7 and later with the prebuilt
    # 32-bit installer on the python.org website.

    # skip checks if the compiler was overridden with a CC env variable
    if 'CC' in os.environ:
        return _config_vars

    if re.search(r'-arch\s+ppc', _config_vars['CFLAGS']) is not None:
        # NOTE: Cannot use subprocess here because of bootstrap
        # issues when building Python itself
        status = os.system(
            """echo 'int main{};' | """
            """'%s' -c -arch ppc -x c -o /dev/null /dev/null 2>/dev/null"""
            %(_config_vars['CC'].replace("'", "'\"'\"'"),))
        if status:
            # The compile failed for some reason.  Because of differences
            # across Xcode and compiler versions, there is no reliable way
            # to be sure why it failed.  Assume here it was due to lack of
            # PPC support and remove the related '-arch' flags from each
            # config variables not explicitly overridden by an environment
            # variable.  If the error was for some other reason, we hope the
            # failure will show up again when trying to compile an extension
            # module.
            for cv in _UNIVERSAL_CONFIG_VARS:
                if cv in _config_vars and cv not in os.environ:
                    flags = _config_vars[cv]
                    flags = re.sub(r'-arch\s+ppc\w*\s', ' ', flags)
                    _save_modified_value(_config_vars, cv, flags)

    return _config_vars


def _override_all_archs(_config_vars):