try: import distutils from distutils import sysconfig from distutils.command.install import install from distutils.core import setup, Extension except: raise SystemExit, "Distutils problem" prefix = "__PREFIX__" inc_dirs = [prefix + "/include"] lib_dirs = [prefix + "/lib"] libs = ["gdbm"] setup(name = "gdbm", version = "__VERSION__", description = "GDBM Extension to Python", ext_modules = [Extension('gdbm', ['gdbmmodule.c'], include_dirs = inc_dirs, libraries = libs, library_dirs = lib_dirs)] )