At 12:59 PM 12/14/2005 -0800, Todd Greenwood-Geer wrote:
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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.)