Update: as of 3.6.5 and 2.7.15 and in the upcoming 3.7.0 release, macSO framework builds with --enable-universalsdk=/ no longer add -isysroot=/ to compiler and linker calls.  They are not necessary and made it more difficult to attempt to override.  Although we still do not officially support building on newer macOS systems for older systems (due to lack of "weak link" testing support and issues with setup.py and configure), it should now be possible to more easily use the Apple build tool chain features documented for xcrun, like the DEVELOPER_RUN and SDKROOT environment variables (see 'man xcrun').  This includes current python.org macOS installer builds.  So I think we can finally close this.