I don't think you can unset a value. You can override it from the command line though
$ python setup.py install --prefix=xxx But if you need to ignore the "prefix" option, I think you need to write your own install command to override this behavior. 2008/12/17 Ian Bicking <[email protected]>: > Is there any way, when you have a setting in distutils.cfg, to unset that > value? For instance, if you've set: > > [install] > prefix = something > > Is there a way to get distutils to ignore this setting? Setting it to the > empty string doesn't seem to do it, and I don't know of any other way. > > -- > Ian Bicking : [email protected] : http://blog.ianbicking.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé - Directeur Technique INGENIWEB (TM) - SAS 50000 Euros - RC B 438 725 632 Bureaux de la Colline - 1 rue Royale - Bâtiment D - 9ème étage 92210 Saint Cloud - France Phone : 01.78.15.24.00 / Fax : 01 46 02 44 04 http://www.ingeniweb.com - une société du groupe Alter Way _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
