distutils question - anything akin to make's -n flag?

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:31:42 -0600 (CST), 
	Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> wrote:
>to see what potential harm it could inflict on my system.  I saw nothing in
>a quick scan of the distutils documentation to suggest there is an
>equivalent to make's -n flag.  Am I missing something or am I at the mercy
>of the module author?

Most, perhaps all, of the distutils commands support -n; try 'python
setup.py build --help' to get a list of options.

--amk