[Image-SIG] Installing libjpeg

[Sebastian Haase]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> PIL's setup.py script (which uses Python's standard "distutils" build
> mechanisms) work the same was as the venerable "make" utility (1);
> that is, if a target exists and is newer than the source files, it's
> assumed to be correct.  This is great when you change only a few
> source files, but less great when you change the configuration but not
> the source...
>
> Distutils provides a "clean" command that removes old stuff, and
> there's also a --force option to install that's supposed to force a
> full rebuild.  Looks like neither of these are explained in the
> generic Python "installing python modules" documentation (2), so I
> guess I should add something to the README about this.

Thanks for the info  -- maybe someone here is also on the python list
and can suggest a note being added to the proper place in (2).

- Sebastian Haase


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> </F>
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> 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)
> 2) http://docs.python.org/install/index.html
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