Hi all,

I have a small patch to absoft.py:

Compiling my fortran extension using f2py and distutils from Numpy 1.5, with Python 2.7 on Windows, using Absoft v11.0 and MSVC 2008 Pro, first, it complained about not finding the library U77.lib. Removing this from the library list (in absoft.py) gave me this error:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __absoft_s_cat

This symbol is now exported from amisc.lib, and after adding this to the library list everything works fine.

The end result is the following patch:  (or just replacing U77 with amisc)
--- C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/absoft_patched.py    Fri Sep 24 15:10:57 2010
+++ C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/absoft.py    Fri Sep 24 15:09:52 2010
@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@
 
     def get_libraries(self):
         opt = FCompiler.get_libraries(self)
-        if self.get_version() >= '10.0':
+        if self.get_version() >= '11.0':
+            opt.extend(['af90math', 'afio', 'af77math', 'amisc'])
+        elif self.get_version() >= '10.0':
             opt.extend(['af90math', 'afio', 'af77math', 'U77'])
         elif self.get_version() >= '8.0':
             opt.extend(['f90math','fio','f77math','U77'])


BTW, the performance increase compared to gfortran v4.5.0 is really noticeable, perhaps more than 50%.