diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8e332d8..416fa05 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ lex.yy.c
 # cscope files
 cscope.*
 ncscope.*
+
+.eggs/
+build/
+dist/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e6c4ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
+
+global-exclude *
+include setup.py
+include pylibfdt/libfdt.i
+include pylibfdt/*.py
+include libfdt/libfdt.h
+include libfdt/fdt.h
+include libfdt/libfdt_env.h
diff --git a/pylibfdt/Makefile.pylibfdt b/pylibfdt/Makefile.pylibfdt
index 015a05e..82f565e 100644
--- a/pylibfdt/Makefile.pylibfdt
+++ b/pylibfdt/Makefile.pylibfdt
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ PYLIBFDT_CLEANFILES = $(PYLIBFDT_CLEANFILES_L:%=$(PYLIBFDT_dir)/%)
 PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS_L = build __pycache__
 PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS = $(PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS_L:%=$(PYLIBFDT_dir)/%)
 
-SETUP = $(PYLIBFDT_dir)/setup.py
-SETUPFLAGS = --top-builddir .
+SETUP = ./setup.py
 
 ifndef V
 SETUPFLAGS += --quiet
diff --git a/pylibfdt/meson.build b/pylibfdt/meson.build
index fad5aa1..f684cbb 100644
--- a/pylibfdt/meson.build
+++ b/pylibfdt/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-setup_py = find_program('setup.py')
-setup_py = [setup_py.path(), '--quiet', '--top-builddir', meson.current_build_dir() / '..']
+setup_py = find_program('../setup.py')
+setup_py = [setup_py.path(), '--quiet', '--top-builddir', meson.project_build_root()]
 
 custom_target(
   'pylibfdt',
diff --git a/pylibfdt/setup.py b/setup.py
similarity index 75%
rename from pylibfdt/setup.py
rename to setup.py
index 75ce09a..4b07be9 100755
--- a/pylibfdt/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,36 +15,37 @@ import os
 import re
 import sys
 
+srcdir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
 def get_top_builddir():
     if '--top-builddir' in sys.argv:
         index = sys.argv.index('--top-builddir')
         sys.argv.pop(index)
         return sys.argv.pop(index)
     else:
-        return os.getcwd()
+        return srcdir
 
-srcdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]))
 top_builddir = get_top_builddir()
 
 libfdt_module = Extension(
     '_libfdt',
-    sources=[os.path.join(srcdir, 'libfdt.i')],
-    include_dirs=[os.path.join(srcdir, '../libfdt')],
+    sources=[os.path.join(srcdir, 'pylibfdt/libfdt.i')],
+    include_dirs=[os.path.join(srcdir, 'libfdt')],
     libraries=['fdt'],
     library_dirs=[os.path.join(top_builddir, 'libfdt')],
-    swig_opts=['-I' + os.path.join(srcdir, '../libfdt')],
+    swig_opts=['-I' + os.path.join(srcdir, 'libfdt')],
 )
 
 setup(
     name='libfdt',
     use_scm_version={
-        "root": os.path.join(srcdir, '..'),
+        "root": srcdir,
     },
     setup_requires = ['setuptools_scm'],
     author='Simon Glass',
     author_email='sjg@chromium.org',
     description='Python binding for libfdt',
     ext_modules=[libfdt_module],
-    package_dir={'': srcdir},
+    package_dir={'': os.path.join(srcdir, 'pylibfdt')},
     py_modules=['libfdt'],
 )