Known issues

Warning

Note that astropy-helpers is deprecated. As justified and described in APE17, the astropy-helpers infrastructure is no longer used for Astropy coordinated or infrastructure packages, and hence is no longer maintained.

If you are building a package with a C extension on old MacOS X systems (e.g. MacOS X 10.7 Lion) you may run into issues (e.g. segmentation fault) with the default GCC 4.2 compiler available on those systems. If this is the case, you can tell setuptools to use the clang compiler (which should work) using e.g.:

CC=clang python setup.py build

See astropy/astropy#31 for a discussion of the original problem.