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authorSteve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>2022-09-01 21:33:53 +0100
committerJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2022-09-24 12:18:01 -0400
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Add DISTUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG option for passing setup.cfg overrides during build
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diff --git a/docs/distutils/configfile.rst b/docs/distutils/configfile.rst
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--- a/docs/distutils/configfile.rst
+++ b/docs/distutils/configfile.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ consequences:
:file:`setup.py`
* installers can override anything in :file:`setup.cfg` using the command-line
- options to :file:`setup.py`
+ options to :file:`setup.py` or by pointing :envvar:`DISTUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG`
+ to another configuration file
The basic syntax of the configuration file is simple: