Weave issues inherited from SciPy

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The following issues are inherited from when weave was a part of SciPy:

• undefined symbol when importing module compiled with weave scipy#4947
• weave.inline fails to pickup recompiled version with force=1 scipy#3849
• weave inline missing header msvc scipy#3236
• SciPy Weave File Handling is not Batch Safe [Possible Race Condition?] scipy#2902
• scipy.weave.inline CompileError: error: Bad file descriptor (Trac #1738) scipy#2257
• weave tests crash on windows with mingw (Trac #1725) scipy#2244
• scipy.weave.inline fails to convert numpy.double type (Trac #1679) scipy#2204
• weave.inline() ignores runtime_library_dirs on Mac OS X (Trac #1557) scipy#2082
• Running scipy.weave programs on cluster with shared filesystem (Trac #1370) scipy#1895
• Weave tutorial obsolete ? (Trac #1368) scipy#1893
• scipy.weave does not work well with big-endian numpy arrays (Trac #1153) scipy#1680
• scipy.weave.inline ignores changed support code (Trac #1143) scipy#1670
• Weave.inline with Blitz type converters cause segfault when accessing numpy array locations >2GB into array (Trac #1139) scipy#1666
• scipy.weave.blitz bug using functions (Trac #1026) scipy#1553
• Updated blitz++ to upsttream version (Trac #1011) scipy#1538
• Weave relies on gcc extensions -> problems on VS2008 (Trac #994) scipy#1521
• weave.blitz segfaults on nice-looking code (Trac #952) scipy#1479
• weave lacks option to set the compiler executable (Trac #933) scipy#1460
• windows, weave.inline and empty spaces in library paths (Trac #809) scipy#1336
• scipy.weave.converters.blitz fails with g++4.3 (Trac #739) scipy#1266
• Proposing 'fast_vectorize' to go in scipy.weave (Trac #727) scipy#1254
• Weave incorrectly assumes PyStrings are NUL-terminated (Trac #657) scipy#1184
• weave does not work with numpy arrays of dtype="O" (Trac #601) scipy#1128
• numpy bool type support for scipy.weave (Trac #557) scipy#1084
• Unable to execute scipy.weave.inline: unsure what problem is? (Trac #550) scipy#1077
• weave not detecting numpy complex scalar (and perhaps other numpy) data types. (Trac #496) scipy#1023
• decrease weave output verbosity (Trac #489) scipy#1016
• Scipy test hangs (Trac #1724) scipy#2243

If one of the issues is fixed (unlikely), it will be checked off in the list.