Great, thanks! It looks like out of tree builds are supported fine even in distutils. Properly written extensions will also find the build directory as a property of the build command. There should be no barrier to using the single build wheel function for the pep.
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017, 10:33 Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Unrelated to pep 517, remind me whether when invoking setup.py build -b >> dir bdist, if the -b argument passed to the build command is supposed to >> affect the build command run as a subcommand of bdist? Asking for a friend >> 😸 >> > > "setup.py build -b {dirname} bdist" will first run the build command (and > its sub commands build_*) then invoke the bdist command. When bdist > requests build to be executed, distutils will see that it is already run > and simply continue on. Even if a reinit is requested (for build), the > supplied options will be applied again when the build command is finalized > prior to running. > > -- > Jeremy Kloth >
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