[Distutils] Why using distutils.core.setup requires Python sources ?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:59 PM 6/14/2006 +0200, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
>I don't understand why distutils.core.setup needs Python sources (a
>missing Makefile on my distro).
>
>I did not found in the mail archives.
>
>Could you explain me ?

Because the Makefile contains configuration options for how Python was 
built, and these options are read by the distutils.