I agree that it would be nice to be able to pass build_ext arguments to develop.
You can put build_ext options in a setup.cfg file. And, FWIW, buildout has a recipe that lets you specify custom build_ext options when creating develop eggs. Jim On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Jamie Kirkpatrick wrote: > Couple of things. > > Currently there is no way to pass custom options through setuptools > "develop" to distutils build_ext. What this means in practice is > that you cannot do the following things: > > • pass the --debug flag to build_ext so as to have your module build > against debug libraries. > • pass any of the SWIG options through. > • I'm sure there are other limitations. > > Because of this I ended up abandoning the swig functionality of > distutils and running that as a pre distuils phase of my build > scripts - it would be better If I could use it through distutils > though. The show stopper is the fact I can't build against debug > libraries - this means I cannot mix the --debug type builds and the > develop functionality, something that seems like a logical thing to > do. > > Is there any chance that someone could find a way to allow options to > be passed through to build_ext as it is run? I'm sure its just a > case of adding another option to setuptools develop and then passing > it through at the relevant point. If noone wants to take it on I'm > happy to write a patch if we all agree its the way to go. > > Thanks in advance > > Jamie > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
