[SciPy-dev] config_fc and bdist_rpm

[Pearu Peterson]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Stephen Walton wrote:

> It appears that it is still the case that config_fc is ignored when one
> does bdist_rpm instead of build for building Scipy_core and Scipy.  That
> is, on my system g77 is always used for the build, even when I give the
> command
>
> python setup.py config_fc --fcompiler=absoft bdist_rpm
>
> Is there an easy fix?

bdist_rpm runs setup.py file with its own options. If someone could figure 
out how to alter bdist_rpm options without modifying distutils then that 
would be great. Otherwise we need to patch bdist_rpm in scipy.distutils.

Pearu