• Pip version: 9.0.1
• Python version: 2.7.12
• Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04

Description:

I maintain a package that has many dependencies, which are also conditional to a specific argument to setup.py.

If I pass this argument to pip, like this:

pip install ./ --global-option="--argument=opt1" -vvv

Then in the very first few lines I see the output:

Running command python setup.py egg_info

And the wrong list of dependencies is fetched (ie, as if I did not pass the argument at all).

If I run in the project directory the following command:

python setup.py egg_info --argument=opt1

Then the correct list of dependencies is added.

Can the specified global options be added to it, like they are for build and install?