diff -r 7093d5758954 Doc/distutils/introduction.rst
--- a/Doc/distutils/introduction.rst	Mon Mar 17 22:38:41 2014 +0100
+++ b/Doc/distutils/introduction.rst	Tue Mar 18 16:21:29 2014 -0600
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@
 careful about putting arbitrarily expensive operations in your setup script.
 Unlike, say, Autoconf-style configure scripts, the setup script may be run
 multiple times in the course of building and installing your module
-distribution.
+distribution. The setup script should  be run from your project location::
+
+    cd path/to/project; python setup.py command 
 
 If all you want to do is distribute a module called :mod:`foo`, contained in a
 file :file:`foo.py`, then your setup script can be as simple as this::