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diff --git a/doc/source/user/building.rst b/doc/source/user/building.rst index 8acb2fa3b..d6ca622f9 100644 --- a/doc/source/user/building.rst +++ b/doc/source/user/building.rst @@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ To perform an in-place build that can be run from the source folder run:: python setup.py build_ext --inplace -The NumPy build system uses ``distutils`` and ``numpy.distutils``. -``setuptools`` is only used when building via ``pip`` or with ``python -setupegg.py``. Using ``virtualenv`` should work as expected. +The NumPy build system uses ``setuptools`` (from numpy 1.11.0, before that it +was plain ``distutils``) and ``numpy.distutils``. +Using ``virtualenv`` should work as expected. *Note: for build instructions to do development work on NumPy itself, see* :ref:`development-environment`. |