[Distutils] --build-base and install

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:49 PM 6/30/2005 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>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.

Not only that, if you want to always select a particular compiler, you can 
put it in your $HOME/pydistutils.cfg (Windows) or ~/.pydistutils.cfg 
(Unixes), or in a distutils.cfg file in the package directory for distutils 
(any platform).  I do this for any new Python install on Windows, and never 
have to use the --compiler or -c option.