[Distutils] Missing options for setuptools develop

[Jim Fulton]

I agree that it would be nice to be able to pass build_ext arguments  
to develop.

You can put build_ext options in a setup.cfg file.

And, FWIW, buildout has a recipe that lets you specify custom  
build_ext options when creating develop eggs.

Jim

On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Jamie Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Couple of things.
>
> Currently there is no way to pass custom options through setuptools
> "develop" to distutils build_ext.  What this means in practice is
> that you cannot do the following things:
>
> • pass the --debug flag to build_ext so as to have your module build
> against debug libraries.
> • pass any of the SWIG options through.
> • I'm sure there are other limitations.
>
> Because of this I ended up abandoning the swig functionality of
> distutils and running that as a pre distuils phase of my build
> scripts - it would be better If I could use it through distutils
> though.  The show stopper is the fact I can't build against debug
> libraries - this means I cannot mix the --debug type builds and the
> develop functionality, something that seems like a logical thing to  
> do.
>
> Is there any chance that someone could find a way to allow options to
> be passed through to build_ext as it is run?  I'm sure its just a
> case of adding another option to setuptools develop and then passing
> it through at the relevant point.  If noone wants to take it on I'm
> happy to write a patch if we all agree its the way to go.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jamie
>
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