[Distutils] --build-base and install

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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!

Aside: you can also put these options into the setup.cfg file,
so that you don't have to retype them every time.

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