Leginon

The pysetup.sh bash script includes this:

echo "This script will run \"python setup.py...\" in all python packages of myami."
echo "Please specify the command line arguments that you want to pass to setup.py."
echo ""
echo "For example, if you want to run \"python setup.py install\" on all packages:"
echo " $0 install"
echo ""
echo "Or, if you want to run \"python setup.py build\":"
echo " $0 build"
echo ""
echo "You can give any options accepted by setup.py, such as:"
echo " $0 install --prefix=/home/user/myinstallpath"
echo ""
exit;


Looking at a few of the setup.py files in the individual folders, I don't see any evidence that anything other than the setup option is supported. In fact, the setup.py files don't appear to pay attention to command line arguments, but then I'm not a python expert, so am not sure about this.

If I'm wrong, and the build option does something, what does it do?