Re: Installing libjpeg
Sebastian Haase <[email protected]>
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Fredrik Lundh <[email protected]> wrote: > PIL's setup.py script (which uses Python's standard "distutils" build > mechanisms) work the same was as the venerable "make" utility (1); > that is, if a target exists and is newer than the source files, it's > assumed to be correct. This is great when you change only a few > source files, but less great when you change the configuration but not > the source... > > Distutils provides a "clean" command that removes old stuff, and > there's also a --force option to install that's supposed to force a > full rebuild. Looks like neither of these are explained in the > generic Python "installing python modules" documentation (2), so I > guess I should add something to the README about this. Thanks for the info -- maybe someone here is also on the python list and can suggest a note being added to the proper place in (2). - Sebastian Haase > > </F> > > 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software) > 2) http://docs.python.org/install/index.html > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig