[Numpy-discussion] NumPy 1.8.1 release

[Julian Taylor]

On 29.03.2014 00:02, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 28.03.2014 23:09, Olivier Grisel wrote:
> 
>> you can get rid of libgfortran and quadmath with the -static-libgfortran
>> flag
>> libgcc_s is probably more tricky as scipy uses c++ so -static-libgcc may
>> need checking before using it
>> doesn't mac provide libgcc_s anyway? Even though they have clang by
>> default now, I doubt they can remove libgcc very soon.
> 
> As of OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), -static-libgcc is not supported by the C
> compiler. 
> 

because the C compiler is not gcc, so obviously also no libgcc.
10.9 uses clang by default.

But the library is still installed in the system (at least on the 10.9
macs I saw)