ENH: add support for the PathScale compilers on Linux. Closes #1043.

Thanks to R. Perez.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/distutils/pathccompiler.py b/numpy/distutils/pathccompiler.py
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+from distutils.unixccompiler import UnixCCompiler
+
+class PathScaleCCompiler(UnixCCompiler):
+
+    """
+    PathScale compiler compatible with an gcc built Python.
+    """
+
+    compiler_type = 'pathcc'
+    cc_exe = 'pathcc'
+    cxx_exe = 'pathCC'
+
+    def __init__ (self, verbose=0, dry_run=0, force=0):
+        UnixCCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose, dry_run, force)
+        cc_compiler = self.cc_exe
+        cxx_compiler = self.cxx_exe
+        self.set_executables(compiler=cc_compiler,
+                             compiler_so=cc_compiler,
+                             compiler_cxx=cxx_compiler,
+                             linker_exe=cc_compiler,
+                             linker_so=cc_compiler + ' -shared')