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| author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2014-03-13 09:59:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2014-03-13 09:59:31 (GMT) |
| commit | f1e8c70cf0ba6082e9b35061c310d708d477556a (patch) | |
| tree | 21129b346155d659cb9358c9d9d7ea5f5e48260d /Doc | |
| parent | 39930c9ca0e8ad2e1465e7a31b4a400d6f34ccff (diff) | |
| parent | 45fc8713bda1bfd6c0de3c6f493a4eeff52acbe3 (diff) | |
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Merge 3.3 (#11599)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/install/index.rst | 3 |
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst index ee96302..fbe4290 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst @@ -685,6 +685,8 @@ include the following code fragment in your :file:`setup.py` before the DistributionMetadata.download_url = None +.. _debug-setup-script: + Debugging the setup script ========================== @@ -700,7 +702,8 @@ installation is broken because they don't read all the way down to the bottom and see that it's a permission problem. On the other hand, this doesn't help the developer to find the cause of the -failure. For this purpose, the DISTUTILS_DEBUG environment variable can be set +failure. For this purpose, the :envvar:`DISTUTILS_DEBUG` environment variable can be set to anything except an empty string, and distutils will now print detailed -information what it is doing, and prints the full traceback in case an exception -occurs. +information about what it is doing, dump the full traceback when an exception +occurs, and print the whole command line when an external program (like a C +compiler) fails. diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst index 779e923..0c9a9f2 100644 --- a/Doc/install/index.rst +++ b/Doc/install/index.rst @@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ new goodies to their toolbox. You don't need to know Python to read this document; there will be some brief forays into using Python's interactive mode to explore your installation, but that's it. If you're looking for information on how to distribute your own Python modules so that others may use them, see -the :ref:`distutils-index` manual. +the :ref:`distutils-index` manual. :ref:`debug-setup-script` may also be of +interest. .. _inst-trivial-install: |