Ken Williams added the comment:
Thanks Irit - yes, the behavior with 3.9 and 3.10 is the same, and their
Makefiles seem to have the same unguarded `echo` statements emitting the output.
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Ken Williams added the comment:
I poked around a bit more, and it looks like a fair number of the installation
messages are coming from `Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py`, which is
using `distutils.log` to show what it's doing:
log.debug("not copying %s (up-to-date)&quo
Ken Williams added the comment:
This situation still seems to be the case in 2022. The output of `make
altinstall` has thousands of lines like
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Lib/test/__main__.py /usr/local/lib/python3.8/test
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
/usr
Ken Williams added the comment:
Thanks, Paul and Eric, for your very quick replies.
You're quite correct, the original question in
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15008806/169947 is indeed hoping for `--foo TRUE`
and `--foo False` etc. to work. Personally I don't like that as much as the
GNU
Ken Williams added the comment:
@vstinner - I don't think that conclusion is correct, here is a very
highly-upvoted answer on SO that indicates a lot of people are still looking
for this:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15008806/169947
I myself asked a related (more focused?) question where I
