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@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ optionally be defined, depending on the package's needs. Many of them
are only useful in very specific cases, typical packages will
therefore only use a few of them, or none.
+* +PYTHON_FOO_SUBDIR+ may contain the name of a subdirectory inside the
+ package that contains the main +setup.py+ file. This is useful,
+ if for example, the main +setup.py+ file is not at the root of
+ the tree extracted by the tarball. If +HOST_PYTHON_FOO_SUBDIR+ is not
+ specified, it defaults to +PYTHON_FOO_SUBDIR+.
+
* +PYTHON_FOO_ENV+, to specify additional environment variables to
pass to the Python +setup.py+ script (for both the build and install
steps). Note that the infrastructure is automatically passing
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