At 11:30 PM 3/2/2010, James Porter wrote:
Perhaps this is a bug or perhaps I'm just doing it wrong, but I
can't figure out a good way to install C header files as part of a
setuptools project.
With distutils, there's a "headers" argument to setup() that
installs the header files in their proper spot, but setuptools
ignores this. It looks like setuptools is hijacking the install
command and manually running install_lib, install_data, etc, but
never install_headers.
Egg-based installs don't include headers. However, if you use the
--root or --single-version-externally-managed options to "setup.py
install", a backwards-compatible, non-egg-based installation is done,
and the headers should be included in that case. This installation
mode is used by default when building other types of binary
distribution, such as RPMs.
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