Re: Discovering and using setup.py options

2018-11-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 7, 2018, at 01:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Nov 6, 2018, at 17:50, Chris Jones wrote: > >> On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:05 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> For Python projects that build using a setup.py file, how do I discover >>> what options are available -- what's the equivalent of "./confi

Re: Discovering and using setup.py options

2018-11-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 6, 2018, at 17:50, Chris Jones wrote: > On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:05 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> For Python projects that build using a setup.py file, how do I discover what >> options are available -- what's the equivalent of "./configure --help"? I've >> tried "python2.7 setup.py --help

Re: Discovering and using setup.py options

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Jones
Can you post a link to an example of such a file you have been looking at ? Chris > On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:05 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > For Python projects that build using a setup.py file, how do I discover what > options are available -- what's the equivalent of "./configure --help"? I've

Discovering and using setup.py options

2018-11-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
For Python projects that build using a setup.py file, how do I discover what options are available -- what's the equivalent of "./configure --help"? I've tried "python2.7 setup.py --help" and "python2.7 setup.py build --help" which seem to provide only generic help and not help specific to this