On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, PJ Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:05 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I disliked that setup.py creates its own temp directories without any > > private prefix, so I wanted to override this option in setup.py: > > > > $ setup.py build -h > > ... > > Options for 'build' command: > > --build-base (-b) base directory for build library > > > > And the only way I could find to do this is through setup.cfg: > > http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/configfile.html > > > > Is it really the case or I overlooked some essential documentation part? > > There are user-level and global .cfg files as well: > > > http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/install/index.html#location-and-names-of-config-files > For the history - there is a way to override setup.py command defaults as it was found out by Jeremy Kloth: setup(options={'build': {'build_base': 'path/to/build/outputs'}},...) Freshly related issue http://bugs.python.org/issue16729 -- anatoly t.
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