How to obtain arguments passed to setup.py from pip with '--install-option'?

Question

I am using pip 1.4.1, attempting to install a package from a local path, for example:

pip install /path/to/my/local/package

This does what

Answer 1

I was having this problem installing pyside.

I needed to specify the --qmake option.

This is the form you need:

pip install --install-option="--qmake=/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qmake" PySide