Can you post a link to an example of such a file you have been looking at ?

Chris

> On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:05 pm, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> For Python projects that build using a setup.py file, how do I discover what 
> options are available -- what's the equivalent of "./configure --help"? I've 
> tried "python2.7 setup.py --help" and "python2.7 setup.py build --help" which 
> seem to provide only generic help and not help specific to this setup.py file.
> 
> Once I know what options are available, how do I provide them to setup.py? 
> I've tried adding them to build.args, which gives me an "option not 
> recognized" error.
> 
> I've tried a couple times in recent days, with setup.py files that, based on 
> my reading of them, provide some custom options that I would like to use, but 
> I can't figure out how to use them. Can anyone help?
> 

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