Added --help-fcompiler option to build_ext command.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/distutils/command/build_ext.py b/numpy/distutils/command/build_ext.py
index e85b060d0..483151ef9 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/command/build_ext.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/command/build_ext.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from numpy.distutils.system_info import combine_paths
 from numpy.distutils.misc_util import filter_sources, has_f_sources, \
      has_cxx_sources, get_ext_source_files, all_strings, \
      get_numpy_include_dirs, is_sequence
-
+from numpy.distutils.command.config_compiler import show_fortran_compilers
 
 class build_ext (old_build_ext):
 
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ class build_ext (old_build_ext):
          "specify the Fortran compiler type"),
         ]
 
+    help_options = old_build_ext.help_options + [
+        ('help-fcompiler',None, "list available Fortran compilers",
+         show_fortran_compilers),
+        ]
+
     def initialize_options(self):
         old_build_ext.initialize_options(self)
         self.fcompiler = None