[Distutils] setup.py clean questions
Jeremy Kloth
jeremy.kloth@fourthought.com
Thu Feb 15 18:48:59 2001
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> Late in the process, I decided to read the source and discovered a
> --all option to clean. That indeed got rid of most of the stuff I was
> interested in, but spewed even more warnings about directories that
> didn't exist. It did not, however, remove the 2.0 directories.
Distutils only knows about the current version of Python that you run
the setup.py script with. In the case of lib.linux-i686-2.1, it appears
you are running Python 2.1, hence the -2.1 on the directory. So, if you
want to clean 2.0 directories, run the setup.py script with Python 2.0.
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