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On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 at 08:10 tdsmith wrote:

Hi python-dev! I'm a maintainer for Homebrew, a third-party package
manager for OS X, where I'm the resident parseltongue.

Issue 10910 is related to problems building CPython extension modules
with C++ code on BSDs. As I understand it, pyport.h has some code
specific to BSD and friends, including OS X, which causes conflicts
with the C++ stdlib.

We've been carrying the patch Ronald Oussoren wrote in 2011 \[2\]
against Python 2.7 since olden times. We were recently prompted to add
the patch to our 3.5 package as well \[3\] because the bug was causing
build problems in the wild. \[4\]

We strive to apply as few patches as possible in Homebrew and we (I)
would love to see a fix for this deployed upstream. Can I do anything
to help code get checked in?

The trick is someone feeling up to the task of knowing enough C, C++, and what's happening on OS X/BSD to validate the patch and apply it. Usually that's Ronald or Ned and Ronald never applied his patch, so I guess that leaves Ned. :)

If Ned doesn't have the time to look then just ping the issue in a week and I will apply it since both you and FreeBSD are already carrying the patch forward.