./setup.py install的--install-base参数究竟意味着什么？

Question

I try to install a python module with a custom installation layout.

From the documentation I gathered that I could do

python ./setup.py install -f --install-base="/home/hstock/tmp/python" \
                        --install-purelib=modules \
                        --install-scripts=bin \
                        --install-data=data \
                        --install-platlib=modules \
                        --install-headers=include

and this should install modules to /home/hstock/tmp/python/modules - however it seems that install-base is ignored and modules are installed to ./modules .

Is this a bug or did I get the documentation wrong?

(This is python 2.6.5 on Ubuntu Lucid)

Update:

The module I want to install is self made, the setup.py is very simple:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup

setup(
    name='ilogtoolbox',
    provides=['ilogtoolbox'],
    version='0.6.3.1',
    packages=['ilogtoolbox'],
    requires=['daemon'],
    scripts=['prunedirs', 'logstoexternal']
    )

Answer 1

Actually all those --install-* arguments accept simple string templates. Have a look at python's stdlib distutils.command.install code . You will see that defaults are like '$base/Lib' or '$base/Scripts'.

So for your use case it will look like this:

python ./setup.py install -f --install-base="/home/hstock/tmp/python" \
                        --install-purelib='$base/modules' \
                        --install-scripts='$base/bin' \
                        --install-data='$base/data' \
                        --install-platlib='$base/modules' \
                        --install-headers='$base/include'

And since --install-lib actually sets both purelib and platlib it can be shortened a little:

python ./setup.py install -f --install-base="/home/hstock/tmp/python" \
                        --install-lib='$base/modules' \
                        --install-scripts='$base/bin' \
                        --install-data='$base/data' \
                        --install-headers='$base/include'

Answer 2

From looking at the documentation it looks like you have used this correctly - what is the module? Is it possible that the module author did not correctly utilise distutils?