[Distutils] option to force build from source

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 13:32:19 CET 2009


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just did
> easy_install blist
> on fedora F11 x86_64.  I was surprised that it did not build from source,
> instead d/l somebody's blist.so.
>
> No surprise, testing 'import blist' fails with an undefined symbol.
>
> This is distribute 0.6.7.  Please add option to force build from source.

I have added an issue here for follow up:
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/82

Tarek


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