This is as-documented.  Per the docs:

"""If a package is built from a source distribution or checkout, it will be extracted to a subdirectory of the specified directory."""

That is, --build-dir applies only to SVN checkouts (done by easy_install itself) and source distributions (i.e. sdist zipfiles and tarballs).

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