El Capitan: CGFont.h:53:1: error: initializer element is not constant

[certik]

This seems to be a bug in the OS X header files:

[python] gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes  -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/bzip2/hd7dmrit2nfc/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/gdbm/bgcqycfe5g4s/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/launcher/flhfyc244ki3/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/ncurses/a53fawebbppx/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/openssl/e2sl2b4i53uq/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/readline/wthpumklr6m7/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/sqlite/pby4z4go3zcd/include -I/Users/certik/.hashdist/bld/zlib/li2wcyb4qc6l/include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE  -c ./Modules/threadmodule.c -o Modules/threadmodule.o
[python] In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/CGContext.h:18:0,
[python]                  from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/CGBitmapContext.h:9,
[python]                  from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/CoreGraphics.h:11,
[python]                  from /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Headers/ApplicationServices.h:35,
[python]                  from /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Headers/Carbon.h:24,
[python]                  from Include/pymactoolbox.h:10,
[python]                  from Python/mactoolboxglue.c:27:
[python] /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/CGFont.h:53:1: error: initializer element is not constant
[python]  static const CGFontIndex kCGGlyphMax = kCGFontIndexMax;
[python]  ^

Not sure what the best fix is. Either:

• ship our patched version of the header file in gcc, just like we already do for /usr/include/dispatch/object.h
• not include this header file in Python

[jcftang]

This is odd, I did not have this issue when I built python on el capitan