[Distutils] Missing options for setuptools develop

[Jamie Kirkpatrick]

Actually Jim, I've found I am able to call with options (as suggested  
by Phillip) if I put build_ext in the command line first.  So the  
options do exist they just aren't very obvious - I think maybe just  
improving the docs would be enough.

Thanks for the replies.

Jamie

On 2 Jul 2007, at 18:32, Jim Fulton wrote:

>
> 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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