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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- > Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python > Powered! > CTO (540) 361-1714 > http://www.python.org > Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org > > > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
