Issue 294: Allow to run setup.py from another directory.

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branch : distribute
extra : rebase_source : 9219c67abb5791b37822fd67c224a537628c54b9

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c4351b1e..4294f3f9 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import sys
 import os
 import textwrap
 
+# Allow to run setup.py from another directory.
+os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
 src_root = None
 if sys.version_info >= (3,):
     tmp_src = os.path.join("build", "src")