Using pyconfigure with existing projects is easy. For example, if your
project already has a setup.py script, there is no need to
replace it with pyconfigure. In this case, the best way to proceed
would be to run pyconf to copy all of the files into your
project's directory. Next, you simply need to copy the contents of
your setup.py script into setup.py.in. Be sure not to
just overwrite the file directly! Inside setup.py.in you will
see several strings like @PACKAGE_NAME@. These are strings that
will be replaced by the configure script and they should remain
as they are. Most of the contents of the standard setup
function should have already been filled in through the information in
the PKG-INFO file but if not, they can be filled in
manually. The default setup.py.in script is otherwise very
simple, meaning any extensions to it that you have written in your
setup.py script can simply be copied in.
If your project does not yet have a setup.py script but it already has a Makefile, the process is even easier. Simply call pyconf with --prefer-make and the setup.py.in file that is generated in your project's directory will simply wrap your Makefile (just be sure not to pass the --overwrite option!).