[Distutils] Patch for new install options

[Harry Henry Gebel]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:42:08PM -0400, Mark W. Alexander wrote:
> If I'm following the --package-prefix theme properly, it's
> very much in line with RPM's BUILDROOT, and install tree
> used for 2 very important reasons. First, the package
> builder need not be root to produce a binary package
> that installs in directories that only root can write
> to. Second, it provides for relocatable binary RPM's.

Yes, I wrote added --package-prefix specifically to be used in the
following command in an RPM .spec file.

python setup.py --package-prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --record-install

I haven't looked at the latest CVS yet, just got up.

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