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

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Mon Feb 19 13:03:13 2001


From: "Rene Liebscher" <R.Liebscher@gmx.de>:
> If you want to do an install where the intern build uses a particular
> compiler then
> 
> python setup.py install build --compiler=foobar 
> 
> should work.
> 
> Each option is for the last mentioned command, but only the first
> command is really executed. If it executes internal other commands
> then they have already set their options.
> 
But why, if this would be true, does

python setup.py build --debug install

install anything?

Thomas