Issue 1011687: distutils install with -b / --build-base (original) (raw)

This is somewhat related to Bug#818201, in that it involves that fact that the --build-base option only appears to be operational under the build command.

Hence it is not possible to do:

python setup.py install -b

The --help for install does not say that one can, so the situation is not as inconsistent as in the previous bug report. Nevertheless, it is problematic that once one does:

python setup.py build -b

as far as I can tell there is no way to just install the result.

One needs to always do:

python setup.py build -b install

This seems somewhat unwieldy; perhaps -b should be more universally available to all distutil commands?