After commit eba22f3e you couldn’t  pass options like —dynamic-linking and—enable-profiling to the build command anymore. Those options were accepted by the build_ext command instead. With this change you can pass the options to both build and build_ext.

The extension was not properly build with the “python setup.py install” command, it worked fine with “python setup.py build” but the building wasn’t executed when invoking “install” directly.

When rules are passed as strings, the line number would not be shown
when input as a string. The information is available however.

If it is not a file like object, the function would return -1. This
would eventually lead to a segmention fault later on.