[SciPy-dev] Absoft & Scipy

[Stephen Walton]

Pearu Peterson wrote:

> Check Absoft compiler
> manual if it provides options that forces external names to be 
> appended with exactly *one* underscore, and try to modify 
> scipy_distutils/absoftfcompiler.py accordingly.

Sigh.  I found the problem but am not sure of a workaround.  I've 
created an /opt/absoft/default.opt file locally which forces Absoft to 
use the '-g77' switch on all compiles for maximum compatibility with 
binaries from that compiler.   This means that it does the double 
underscore append.  Without -g77 and with -YEXT_SFX=_ on the Absoft 
command line, one gets a single underscore as desired.  With both, one 
gets three underscores!

 From my point of view, the simplest solution would be for f2py to 
respect g77's defaults rather than override them, even though in this 
case I agree g77's default is stupid.  But there's a better reason than 
personal preference:  If I install fftw from the Fedora RPMs, they were 
compiled with g77 and therefore have the double underscores on external 
names with embedded underscores.  I need to minimize the time I spend 
doing admin tasks (see my recent conversation with Fernando) and would 
rather not have to add fftw to the list of things I have to compile 
myself with special switches to keep scipy working.