[Numpy-discussion] tracing bdist_rpm

[Pearu Peterson]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Stephen Walton wrote:

> I am still trying, fitfully, to figure out why numpy and scipy setup.py do 
> not respect an alternative fortran compiler with config_fc when bdist_rpm is 
> used as the build command, but do if the normal build command is used.  Is 
> there any easy way to get a trace of what Python is actually being called as 
> a result of "python setup.py config_fc --fcompiler=absoft bdist_rpm"?

This is not scipy/numpy setup.py specific issue. bdist_rpm calls
`python build` and ignores all other commands in command line. See
the code in std distutils/commands/bdist_rpm.py around lines #411, 
def_build variable.. To resolve this issue, 
numpy.distutils.command.bdist_rpm could add a wrapper around 
_make_spec_file that fixes bdist_rpm build command.

Pearu