[reportlab-users] installation dir troubles

[Frederik Himpe]

I am trying to create a reportlab 2.1 RPM package for Mandriva, but I 
encounter some troubles.

As python-reportlab is platform-independant, it should be installed in
/usr/lib/python2.5, even on x86_64 arch, where /usr/lib64/ is used.

Now when I run python-reportlab, the things which are byte-compiled are 
indeed installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab. But then 
it says
Running install_data
and it installs a bunch of files in /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/
reportlab, which is not consistent with the first location.

It think this part in setup.py is responsible for this problem:
            tn = dirname(fn)
            tn = tn and pjoin(package_path,tn) or package_path
            DATA_FILES.setdefault(tn,[]).append(fn)

AFAIK other python packages just add file names to data_files, without an 
absolute path. Could this be fixed?

-- 
Frederik