[Distutils] --build-base and install

[Thomas Heller]

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 10:01, Paul Moore wrote:
>
>> Have you tried
>> 
>>     python setup.py build --build-base=whatever install
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> I chain the commands like this to switch compilers on Windows (build
>> --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst) and it works fine for that.
>
> Thanks Paul, that does work perfectly.  I didn't realize you could chain
> commands like that!

Another way is to write a setup.cfg file - that way you could not forget
to specify the flags all the time.

Thomas