MAINT: move the option to build_src, simplifies logic

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index b518ca724..d84dc8dac 100755
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def main(argv):
     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")
+                        help="add -v to build_src to show cconfiguration compiler output")
     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,
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ def build_project(args):
     if args.parallel > 1:
         cmd += ["-j", str(args.parallel)]
     if args.debug_configure:
-        cmd += ["--debug-configure"]
+        cmd += ["build_src", "--verbose"]
     # Install; avoid producing eggs so numpy can be imported from dst_dir.
     cmd += ['install', '--prefix=' + dst_dir,
             '--single-version-externally-managed',