-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Great. The pbu utility is perfect. Thanks, yet again. Phillip J. Eby wrote: | At 12:59 PM 12/14/2005 -0800, Todd Greenwood-Geer wrote: |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> PROBLEM: |> I would like to be able to execute the egg build from several |> directories, like so: |> |> $ cd active/SimpleExampleEgg |> $ python setup.py bdist_egg |> |> then, at other times, i'd like to change to a package directory and |> execute the builds from there: |> |> $ cd active/SimpleExampleEgg/fruit/docs |> $ python ../../setup.py bdist_egg | | Stop right there. The distutils do *not* support this, and neither does | setuptools. 'setup.py' scripts *must* be run from the directory where they | are located, so I didn't bother reading the rest of your message. | | If you want to run setup.py this way, you should 'easy_install buildutils' | and then use its "pbu" command, e.g.: | | pbu bdist_egg | | The "pbu" command automatically searches parent directories for a setup.py, | then changes to the directory where the setup.py was found, and runs it for | you. This is the only safe way to do it. | | (When "pbu" exits, you will however still be in the directory you were in | before.) | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDoJnhz6uXX4lQc/URAj1NAKDG6yXdR0w6Y3dqjIaKmZ9InjRN+QCeLe5s L2/6Bs3qn/rTjAPs6RrHn4k= =Z29e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----