From 68c2ab205e590cbd50a79dc09c1dee1c9a892334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 08:49:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: WindowsError not defined under Linux.

---
 skimage/_build.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/skimage/_build.py b/skimage/_build.py
index 8f255f29..771b04b9 100644
--- a/skimage/_build.py
+++ b/skimage/_build.py
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ import hashlib
 import subprocess
 
 
+# WindowsError is not defined on unix systems
+try:
+    WindowsError
+except NameError:
+    WindowsError = None
+
+
 def cython(pyx_files, working_path=''):
     """Use Cython to convert the given files to C.