Building things with setup.py

[James Stroud]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Okay, this is possibly part of the problem. numpy.distutils handles 
> FORTRAN code differently than other extension modules; this is why pure 
> C extension modules both inside numpy and elsewehere were linking fine. 
> Try unsetenving $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS and adding those arguments to 
> build_ext, if necessary.
> 
> Looking on line 516 of numpy/fcompiler/__init__.py (why there's a class 
> definition in __init__.py, I'll never know), it does look like the 
> linker flags which are carefully constructed by numpy.distutils are 
> indeed overridden by the user's setting of $LDFLAGS.

I unset $LDFLAGS and $CPPFLAGS (not trying one at a time), and this did 
the trick. Everything built without a hitch.


James