[Distutils] Custom "build steps"

[Mike Olson]

Paul Prescod wrote:

We do this for IDL and ODL files in 4Suite.  you can check it out in the
DistExt.py.  Its in the admin directory (and installed into Ft.Lib).

Mike

> 
> What's the best way to extend distutils with "custom steps" like a call
> to an IDL compiler or an M4 pre-process? I could just put all of the
> code in my setup.py but it seems very inelegant and not necessarily
> always effective (i.e. what if I have to do a post-process between the
> build and install step?) Is there a technique I can use?
> 
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