Add some bits about distutils

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 80c71a83..3900c648 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -69,7 +69,15 @@ The "make install" target will generate normal and optimised bytecode
 for all the .py files.
 
 As an alternative, pygtk also ships with a distutils setup.py script,
-that may make compilation easier on some platforms.
+that may make compilation easier on some platforms. It's invoked by
+typing:
+
+    $ python setup.py build
+    $ python setup.py install
+
+Optionally a --prefix argument can be specified to install.
+Note, this is unsupported and is primarily there to support Win32
+environments. The configure script is still the preferred way.
 
 
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