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diff --git a/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst b/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst index ce571926e..9d618cc9f 100644 --- a/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst +++ b/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ installs a ``.egg-link`` file into your site-packages as well as adjusts the Other build options ------------------- +Build options can be discovered by running any of:: + + $ python setup.py --help + $ python setup.py --help-commands + It's possible to do a parallel build with ``numpy.distutils`` with the ``-j`` option; see :ref:`parallel-builds` for more details. @@ -106,6 +111,16 @@ source tree is to use:: $ export PYTHONPATH=/some/owned/folder/lib/python3.4/site-packages +NumPy uses a series of tests to probe the compiler and libc libraries for +funtions. The results are stored in ``_numpyconfig.h`` and ``config.h`` files +using ``HAVE_XXX`` definitions. These tests are run during the ``build_src`` +phase of the ``_multiarray_umath`` module in the ``generate_config_h`` and +``generate_numpyconfig_h`` functions. Since the output of these calls includes +many compiler warnings and errors, by default it is run quietly. If you wish +to see this output, you can run the ``build_src`` stage verbosely:: + + $ python build build_src -v + Using virtualenvs ----------------- |