weave lacks option to set the compiler executable (Trac #933)

[scipy-gitbot]

Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/933 on 2009-04-27 by trac user tmbdev, assigned to unknown.

Somtimes it's important to be able to set the compiler executable, for example to use a different version from the installed default version.

weave.inline(...,compiler="gcc-4.2") doesn't work because distutils doesn't understand "gcc-4.2". What is needed is an option to set the compiler executable (or, more generally, change the distutils compiler instance).

I'm marking this a defect rather than an enhancement because lack of this feature really causes weave to be unusable in some environments.

[person142]

Closing since weave is no longer a part of SciPy. This issue is now tracked at scipy/weave#7.