def METHOD_NAME(self):
    """inject deep into distutils to customize how the dispatch
    to gcc/nvcc works.
    If you subclass UnixCCompiler, it's not trivial to get your subclass
    injected in, and still have the right customizations (i.e.
    distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler) run on it. So instead of going
    the OO route, I have this. Note, it's kindof like a wierd functional
    subclassing going on."""
    # tell the compiler it can processes .cu
    self.src_extensions.append('.cu')
    # save references to the default compiler_so and _comple methods
    default_compiler_so = self.compiler_so
    super = self._compile
    # now redefine the _compile method. This gets executed for each
    # object but distutils doesn't have the ability to change compilers
    # based on source extension: we add it.
    def _compile(obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts):
        if os.path.splitext(src)[1] == '.cu':
            # use the cuda for .cu files
            self.set_executable('compiler_so', CUDA['nvcc'])
            # use only a subset of the extra_postargs, which are 1-1 translated
            # from the extra_compile_args in the Extension class
            postargs = extra_postargs['nvcc']
        else:
            postargs = extra_postargs['gcc']
        super(obj, src, ext, cc_args, postargs, pp_opts)
        # reset the default compiler_so, which we might have changed for cuda
        self.compiler_so = default_compiler_so
    # inject our redefined _compile method into the class
    self._compile = _compile