[Numpy-discussion] numpy.distutils/f2py: forcing 8-bit reals

[David Warde-Farley]

Hey Dag,

On 30-Mar-10, at 5:02 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> Well, you can pass -fdefault-real-8 and then write .pyf headers where
> real(8) is always given explicitly.


Actually I've gotten it to work this way, with real(8) in the wrappers.

BUT... for some reason it requires me to set the environment variable  
G77='gfortran -fdefault-real-8'. Simply putting it in f2py_options='-- 
f77flags=\'-fdefault-real-8\' --f90flags=\'-fdefault-real-8\'' doesn't  
seem to do the trick. I don't really understand why.

David