Hello, I have a problem with distutils. During installation, I need to generate a Python module containing information about the target installation paths. For instance, if an user does: setup.py install --install-headers=/foo my module will have to contain something along the lines of: headers= "/foo" I managed to do this by subclassing install_lib (overriding method run) and generating the module there. I access the target paths with things like self.get_finalized_command("install_headers").install_dir. The module is created into the build_dir, so that install_lib.run() then copy it together with the other modules at the correct location. This works like a charm *but* breaks when doing a bdist_wininst (and probably a bdist_rpm, I haven't checked). I'm not sure how to deal with that, as the final paths will be decided at installation time (depending on the user's system), and that's outside of the scope of my setup.py script. Suggestions? For instance, is there a way so that the Windows installer generate an installation log, which my Python script can parse to extract the directory information? -- Giovanni Bajo