[Python-Dev] How to configure with icc on Mac?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>     CC=icc ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/icc-python
> 
> That failed computing the size of size_t because it tries to incorrectly link
> with -lgcc_s.

Can you provide the relevant section of config.log? What is the precise
command that configure is invoking, and what is the precise error
message that icc reports?

> That failed because of a bug in configure.in:
> 
>         case $withval in
>         no)     CC=cc
>                 without_gcc=yes;;
>         yes)    CC=gcc
>                 without_gcc=no;;
>         *)      CC=$withval
>                 without_gcc=$withval;;
> 
> It ignores the CC value on the command line.

I don't think it is a bug. --without-gcc *overrides* the CC environment
variable, rather than ignoring it.

Regards,
Martin