I am trying to get the ZMYSQLDA product working. I am trying to accomplish this on a Solaris 8 machine running Zope with ZEO and an InstanceHome. I have checked the archives for this question, and while similar questions come up, I have not found any that address my problem. Really the problem comes while trying to build MySQL-python. Our MySQL has been installed in /opt/mysql. I have changed the setup.py in the python section to say: include_dirs = ['/opt/mysql/include'] library_dirs = ['/opt/mysql/lib'] When I run 'python setup.py build' I get a bunch of output, then it fails with: ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 I am not sure what the problem is, but since ld fails it would appear to be a linking problem. I don't really know what else to change to try to correct this. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Alex Kelly