[Distutils] Distutils question

[Daniel Holth]

Unrelated to pep 517, remind me whether when invoking setup.py build -b dir
bdist, if the -b argument passed to the build command is supposed to affect
the build command run as a subcommand of bdist? Asking for a friend 😸

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017, 11:17 Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7 July 2017 at 23:23, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> FYI distutils supports out of tree builds too. It is the -b argument to
> >> 'setup.py build'.
> >
> > Sort of. That's short for "--bdist-dir" and tells distutils/setuptools
> > not to use the "dist/" subdirectory for either build trees or the
> > build artifacts. It doesn't say anything about where intermediate
> > artifacts generated by compilers etc should end up.
>
> No, Daniel is correct.  "setup.py *build* -b" is short for
> --build-base which is where all build artifacts go, even those from
> compilers.  It seems you are confusing it with "setup.py *bdist* -b"
> which is indeed short for "--bdist-dir".
>
> --
> Jeremy Kloth
>
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