BUILD: add --debug-configure option to reduce output, use logger more

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index 23245aeac..dbc6fd1ab 100755
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ def main(argv):
     parser = ArgumentParser(usage=__doc__.lstrip())
     parser.add_argument("--verbose", "-v", action="count", default=1,
                         help="more verbosity")
+    parser.add_argument("--debug_configure", action="store_true",
+                        help="show all compiler output during system configuration")
     parser.add_argument("--no-build", "-n", action="store_true", default=False,
                         help="do not build the project (use system installed version)")
     parser.add_argument("--build-only", "-b", action="store_true", default=False,
@@ -366,6 +368,8 @@ def build_project(args):
     cmd += ["build"]
     if args.parallel > 1:
         cmd += ["-j", str(args.parallel)]
+    if args.debug_configure:
+        cmd += ["--debug_configure"]
     # Install; avoid producing eggs so numpy can be imported from dst_dir.
     cmd += ['install', '--prefix=' + dst_dir,
             '--single-version-externally-managed',