Tim Kersten added the comment:
Such an option would be useful indeed.
An idea, though perhaps it's overkill, would be to show the current values of
the options causing problems, specifically if they come from a config file or
environment variable.
i.e. when setup.cfg contains
Tim Kersten added the comment:
Ok, this is embarrassing. :-/
$ python setup.py install --root=/tmp/ --prefix=/usr
running install
error: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both
The above is not caused by specifying both --root and --prefix as I had
assumed. It was my
Tim Kersten added the comment:
I fail to see how these are, or at least should be mutually exclusive. Upon
reading your reply I would think that if one was to specify both a --prefix and
--root that the prefix would be relative to the --root.
i.e. --prefix changes the curront installation
New submission from Tim Kersten :
$ python setup.py install --root=/tmp/ --prefix=/usr
running install
error: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both
I believe that this should work. --root and --prefix are, from what I can tell,
two unrelated options.
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