[Distutils] Install questions

[James Thompson]

I'm building an application, not a python module and am having some
troubles figuring out how to get distutils to install things where I'd
like them.

First problem is with install_data and win32 platforms.  If i specify a
directory of /usr/local/gnue/shared as my target then the initial /
prevents the images from being included in the .exe  If I leave it off
then it installs under c:\python20 which I don't want.

Next, what is the accepted method of altering installation locations and
files that point to that location.  I guess what I'm after is how should a
person grab the value of --prefix and alter files to point to the install
location at runtime.  Is there a standard that people follow?

If anyone is interested the setup.py's I'm working with are at 
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb3/gnue/gnue/gnuef/setup.py?rev=1.14&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
and
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb3/gnue/gnue/python-gnue-base/setup.py?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Thanks for any help you can provide,
James

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