[Image-SIG] Re: setup.py incompleat support of distutils

[W.T. Bridgman]

This is interesting because I've had to do exactly this to get the 
PyXML 0.8+ modules to build in the default location on OS X.  Not sure 
if it's related but it might provide some insight.

Tom

On Apr 20, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> J C Lawrence wrote:
>
>> The Python-pil 1.1.4 installer does not compleatly support distutils.
>> Specifically (in my case) it wouldn't accept a `--prefix=/foo" command
>> line argument to control the installation location.  Adding:
>>
>>   import distutils
>>
>> to setup.py fixed this.
>
> hmm.  that sure sounds like a bug in distutils (or in the 
> documentation; all
> examples use "from distutils.core import ..." which is exactly how 
> it's done
> in PIL's setup file).
>
> anyway, I'll look into it.
>
> thanks /F
>
>
>
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