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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
index 2f4fc47628..a25e4e5889 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
@@ -125,7 +125,13 @@ class Python(AutotoolsPackage):
depends_on('tk', when='+tkinter')
depends_on('tcl', when='+tkinter')
depends_on('tix', when='+tix')
- depends_on('libuuid', when='+uuid')
+ if sys.platform != 'darwin':
+ # On macOS systems, Spack's libuuid conflicts with the system-installed
+ # version and breaks anything linked against Cocoa/Carbon. Since the
+ # system-provided version is sufficient to build Python's UUID support,
+ # the easy solution is to only depend on Spack's libuuid when *not* on
+ # a Mac.
+ depends_on('libuuid', when='+uuid')
patch('tkinter.patch', when='@:2.8,3.3: platform=darwin')