[Distutils] Adding --compiler pass-through option to install

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Rene Liebscher wrote:
> 
> Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:15:59PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > >Wouldn't it make sense to add a --compiler pass-through option
> > >to the install command ?
> >
> > IMHO that leads down the slippery slope of having to pass everything
> > through; --libraries and --debug and --define &c. would also all have
> > to be passed through, and applied to the proper command.  If you need
> > special arguments, run the passes separately.
> >
> If you have to specify it for every package you compile, because
> you want to use a particular compiler, then you should write
> a personal configuration file as described in
> http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/inst/sec:config-filenames.html

Good point. So adding a section

[build]
compiler = cygwin

in Lib\distutils\pydistutils.cfg should take care of such a
setting once and for all.

Still, someone reported that splitting the build and install
steps in two runs of distutils doesn't give the expected behaviour,
so we may have a more difficult problem to solve here...

Would it work to put multiple commands on a single distutils
command line call (associating the options with the command
immediatly preceding it) ?!

python setup.py build --compiler=foobar install

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