New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It seems like if the argument to easy_install is a local file instead of a distribution name, then it ignores the --build-directory option:
easy_install -v -v -v --prefix=./instdir --build-directory=./builddir ./pyutil-1.3.21.tar.gz | grep ^Running | head -1 Running pyutil-1.3.21/setup.py -vvv bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-2fiWD4/pyutil-1.3.21/egg-dist-tmp-PU48xQ $ mkdir -p instdir/lib/python2.5/site-packages ; PYTHONPATH=./instdir/lib/python2.5/site-packages easy_install -v -v -v --prefix=./instdir --build-directory=./builddir ./pyutil-1.3.21.tar.gz | grep ^Running | head -1 Running pyutil-1.3.21/setup.py -vvv bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-8CDXG9/pyutil-1.3.21/egg-dist-tmp-V3Tmzo versus $ mkdir -p instdir/lib/python2.5/site-packages ; PYTHONPATH=./instdir/lib/python2.5/site-packages easy_install -v -v -v --prefix=./instdir --build-directory=./builddir pyutil | grep ^Running | head -1 Running setup.py -vvv bdist_egg --dist-dir ./builddir/pyutil/egg-dist-tmp-sFObAa ---------- messages: 184 nosy: zooko priority: bug status: unread title: ignores --build-directory= option if argument is a local file _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue48> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
