Message 238463 - Python tracker
> Does the patch fix things on Mac OS X and Linux? So far as I can tell, the code in question is to do something so that CXX variables like: export CXX="env BAR=FOO g++" work better. However, it is broken for that case, and since it has been broken since at least python 2.6, I think it would be better to remove the code, as my patches do. My patches do fix things for me on Linux on my case of: export CXX="ccache g++" and do not make things worse for the env case. I can check on OSX if you like.