Comment 22 for bug 542994

OK, will double check patch and try to merge it.

In setup.py I changed the line:
    files = [f for f in os.listdir('maemo/applications') if f.endswith('.desktop')]

to:
    files = ['maemo/applications/%s' % f
   for f in os.listdir('maemo/applications') if f.endswith('.desktop')]

This will solve the error during install.

To use a prefix you need to call setup.py directly instead of using make. Probably for building a package you want to do something like:

   $ ./setup.py install --root /my/package/dir --prefix /usr --skip-xdg-cmd