[SciPy-dev] Getting SciPy ready for New Core

[Travis Oliphant]

I've been cleaning up the setup scripts for new scipy.

I'm "done" with io and am onto special.

I'd like to test for the existence of certain functions and 
conditionally compile some of the code, very similar to what was done in 
setup.py of scipy.base

Now, there was a lot of effort there to find the mathlibraries first so 
they could be linked against on a trial run.  Is that information stored 
anywhere so that scipy.disutils.misc_util.get_math_libs()  or something 
can be used?

It would be really useful, if it were.

-Travis