- the first part is fixing the configure failure, see https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/issues/1536

--- SConstruct.orig	2023-08-22 21:34:46 UTC
+++ SConstruct
@@ -846,6 +846,9 @@ if os.name == "nt":
     for key,val in env["ENV"].items():
         env["ENV"][key] = str(val)
 
+elif "cc" in env.subst("$CC"):
+    config.select("clang")
+
 else:
     env["INSTALL_MANPAGES"] = True
 
@@ -880,6 +883,9 @@ elif "icx" in env.subst("$CC"):
 elif "clang" in env.subst("$CC"):
     config.select("clang")
 
+elif "cc" in env.subst("$CC"):
+    config.select("clang")
+
 else:
     logger.error(f"Unrecognized C compiler {env['CC']!r}")
     sys.exit(1)
@@ -945,10 +951,10 @@ if "sdist" in COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS:
     logger.info("'sdist' target was specified. Setting 'use_pch' to False.")
     env["use_pch"] = False
 
-for arg in ARGUMENTS:
-    if arg not in config:
-        logger.error(f"Encountered unexpected command line option: {arg!r}")
-        sys.exit(1)
+#for arg in ARGUMENTS:
+#    if arg not in config:
+#        logger.error(f"Encountered unexpected command line option: {arg!r}")
+#        sys.exit(1)
 
 env["cantera_version"] = "3.0.0"
 # For use where pre-release tags are not permitted (MSI, sonames)
@@ -2002,12 +2008,12 @@ if env["matlab_toolbox"] == "y":
             "SUNDIALS libraries and skip building the Matlab toolbox.")
         sys.exit(1)
 
-    matlab_path = Path(matlab_path)
-    env["matlab_path"] = matlab_path.as_posix()
-    if not matlab_path.is_dir() and (matlab_path / "extern").is_dir():
-        logger.error(
-            f"Path set for 'matlab_path' is not correct. Path was {matlab_path!r}")
-        sys.exit(1)
+    #matlab_path = Path(matlab_path)
+    #env["matlab_path"] = matlab_path.as_posix()
+    #if not matlab_path.is_dir() and (matlab_path / "extern").is_dir():
+    #    logger.error(
+    #        f"Path set for 'matlab_path' is not correct. Path was {matlab_path!r}")
+    #    sys.exit(1)
 
 
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