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| author | Greg Ward <gward@python.net> | 2000-05-30 03:00:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Ward <gward@python.net> | 2000-05-30 03:00:43 +0000 |
| commit | 3e7b133c957d92b2f0db6e7060bf8a48617f8d9d (patch) | |
| tree | 916e1cc68a42b10a17796025a7d1a2c70cef3d3b /Doc/inst | |
| parent | 98150114e0eb6e814d48a918239205642622dad7 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-3e7b133c957d92b2f0db6e7060bf8a48617f8d9d.tar.gz | |
Added concrete example of when separate build and install might be
useful (suggested by Moshe Zadka).
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/inst/inst.tex | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/inst/inst.tex b/Doc/inst/inst.tex index 0792c91561..c7da3dd9aa 100644 --- a/Doc/inst/inst.tex +++ b/Doc/inst/inst.tex @@ -198,7 +198,11 @@ On Mac~OS, ... \XXX{again, how do you run Python scripts on Mac~OS?} Running \code{setup.py install} builds and installs all modules in one fell swoop. If you prefer to work incrementally---especially useful if you want to customize the build process, or if things are going -wrong---you can use the setup script to do one thing at a time. +wrong---you can use the setup script to do one thing at a time. This is +particularly helpful when the build and install will be done by +different users---e.g., you might want to build a module distribution +and hand it off to a system administrator for installation (or do it +yourself, with super-user privileges). For example, you can build everything in one step, and then install everything in a second step, by invoking the setup script twice: |