there is a Bug in the setup.py-script from Prewikka for all that want to install prewikka with "setup.py install --root dir". A patch is on the End of this Report.
Thank you,

Stephan Gitz

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--- prewikka-0.9.5/setup.py     2006-05-04 10:07:32.000000000 +0200
+++ setup.py    2006-07-16 13:34:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@
         install.finalize_options(self)

     def install_conf(self):
-        self.mkpath(self.root or "" + self.conf_prefix)
+        self.mkpath((self.root or "") + self.conf_prefix)
         for file in self.distribution.conf_files:
-            dest = self.root or "" + self.conf_prefix + "/" + os.path.basename(file)
+            dest = (self.root or "") + self.conf_prefix + "/" + os.path.basename(file)
             if os.path.exists(dest):
                 dest += "-dist" 
             self.copy_file(file, dest)
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@
                     "share/prewikka/htdocs",
                     "share/prewikka/htdocs/images", "share/prewikka/htdocs/js", "share/prewikka/htdocs/css",
                     "share/prewikka/database", "share/prewikka/cgi-bin"):
-            os.chmod(self.root or "" + self.prefix + "/" + dir, 0755)
-        os.chmod(self.root or "" + self.conf_prefix, 0755)
+            os.chmod((self.root or "") + self.prefix + "/" + dir, 0755)
+        os.chmod((self.root or "") + self.conf_prefix, 0755)

         if not self.dry_run:
             for filename in self.get_outputs():