Using Intel compilers

[msyriac]

Is it impossible to use Intel compilers? The setup.py seems to insist on using gcc, e.g.:

$ CC=icc python setup.py build_ext -i
running build_ext
building 'psutil._psutil_linux' extension
icc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O3 -fpic -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O3 -fpic -fPIC -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=568 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/scinet/niagara/intel/2018.2/intelpython3/include/python3.6m -c psutil/_psutil_common.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_common.o
icc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wno-unused-result'
icc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O3 -fpic -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O3 -fpic -fPIC -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=568 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/scinet/niagara/intel/2018.2/intelpython3/include/python3.6m -c psutil/_psutil_posix.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_posix.o
icc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wno-unused-result'
icc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O3 -fpic -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -O3 -fpic -fPIC -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=568 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/scinet/niagara/intel/2018.2/intelpython3/include/python3.6m -c psutil/_psutil_linux.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_linux.o
icc: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-Wno-unused-result'
gcc -pthread -shared -L/scinet/niagara/intel/2018.2/intelpython3/lib -Wl,-rpath=/scinet/niagara/intel/2018.2/intelpython3/lib,--no-as-needed -z noexecstack -z relro -z now -fstack-protector build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_common.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_posix.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_linux.o -L/scinet/niagara/intel/2018.2/intelpython3/lib -lpython3.6m -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/psutil/_psutil_linux.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
unable to execute 'gcc': No such file or directory
C compiler or Python headers are not installed on this system. Try to run:
sudo yum install gcc python3-devel
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

[giampaolo]

I don't know. It has to do with setuptools / distutils so I would google for that.