[Distutils] bdist_egg doesn't call build?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:27 PM 9/12/2008 -0500, chris wrote:
>I created a custom build command, and was hoping it would be called
>when I ran bdist_egg. However, what appears to happen is that
>bdist_egg runs all of build's subcommands directly, and my custom
>build command never runs. Is this what's supposed to happen?

What happens is bdist_egg runs install_lib, install_scripts, and 
install_data.  It's these  commands that run any build subcommands 
that apply.  bdist_egg doesn't actually invoke *any* build commands directly.


>  If so,
>how do I make it call my custom build command short of subclassing
>bdist_egg and using self.run_command('build')?

Short of that?  You can't.