[Distutils] Ability to override location of build/ dir while creating a .egg

[Venkat Bommakanti]

Hi folks,

'am working on a TurboGears1.0-based app that I need
deploy as a .egg. 'am using setuptools-0.6c3...

TG apps have a basic structure like:
  app-top/
    setup.py
    app/
      config/
      controllers/
      ...
    app-egg-info/
      ...

>From 
  app-top/
when I run:
  python setup.py bdist_egg -b tmp<tgt>dir/distdir/
                            -d tmp<tgt>dir/
I can see:
  app-top/
    setup.py
    tmp<tgt>dir/
      app.egg
    ...
    build/
    ...
after successful .egg creation. While there is no
issue with that process, I noticed that it places
the temporary
    build/
directory at the level of tmp<tgt>dir itself. Is 
there a way to specify the location of this 
temporary build/ directory ?

Looked in the online docs, but no way to specify
that. The reason I ask, is that our nightly build 
system builds both a <tgt>=i686 and <tgt>=ppc 
version of my app and there could be a potential 
conflict for both these versions if it just so 
happens that one target-build overwrites the 
other... at the same time.

If I could specify the build/ path, I could have
something like:
  app-top/
    setup.py
    tmp<tgt>dir/
      app.egg
      build/
        ...
      ...
    ...
and avoid issues of simulataneous diff-<tgt> builds.

Thanks much,
/venkat



 
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