On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com
> wrote:

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>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Pavlyk, Oleksandr <
> oleksandr.pav...@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> According to the documentation page:
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>>
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>>    http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/distutils.html
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>>
>> Function add_library allows the following keywords:
>>
>>       extra_f77_compiler_args
>>
>>       extra_f90_compiler_args
>>
>>
>>
>> however setting them seem to have no effect for my extension. Digging
>> deeper, I discovered,
>>
>> the documentation is inconsistent with the implementation, as per
>>
>>
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>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.11.0/numpy/distutils/
>> fcompiler/__init__.py#L569
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>>
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>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.11.0/numpy/distutils/
>> fcompiler/__init__.py#L583
>>
>>
>>
>> And indeed, setting extra_f77_compile_arg has the effect I was looking
>> for.
>>
>> Fixing it is easy, but I am less certain whether we should fix the docs,
>> or the code.
>>
>>
>>
>> Given that add_extension lists extra_compile_args,
>> extra_f77_compile_args, etc, I would think it
>>
>> Is the documentation that need to change.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please confirm, and I will open up a pull request for this.
>>
>
> That's rather unfortunate, "compiler" would be better than "compile", but
> it is best to document the actual behavior. If we later settle on changing
> the argument we can do that, but it is a more involved process.
>
>
Although I suppose we could allow either in the future.

Chuck

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