[SciPy-user] Doesn't work: setup.py config_fc --help-fcompiler

[Robert Kern]

Zachary Pincus wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm playing around with getting scipy to build with gfortran and gcc4  
> on my OS X box.
> 
> Unfortunately, for some reason when I run 'python setup.py config_fc  
> --help-fcompiler' I get absolutely no output. This is with the latest  
> SVN scipy and numpy, with numpy installed.

I can confirm. This appears to be a bug.

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/48

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