I'm a newbie. Have successfully installed the precompiled Zope 2.2.2 on Solaris 2.6, running with apache 1.3.14 via fastcgi. Now trying to install ZPatterns-0-4-3b2. Untarred it into the zope dirs, so now its source is in zope/lib/python/Products/ZPatterns Following the instructions in README.txt, I looked for a Makefile.pre.in ... it wasn't included, so I looked around in the zope distribution and found one in /lib/python/Shared/DC/xml/pyexpat -- it claims to be "Universal Unix Makefile for Python extensions", and it says it works with Python 1.5 or newer: # Build *and install* the basic Python 1.5 distribution. See the # Python README for instructions. (This version of Makefile.pre.in # only withs with Python 1.5, alpha 3 or newer.) ^^^^^ (sic -- is that a Python idiom? :^) ... so I figured it might work, but when I try "make -f Makefile.pre.in boot", I get the following: rm -f *.o *~ rm -f *.a tags TAGS config.c Makefile.pre python sedscript rm -f *.so *.sl so_locations VERSION=`python -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]"`; \ installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`; \ exec_installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`; \ make -f ./Makefile.pre.in VPATH=. srcdir=. \ VERSION=$VERSION \ installdir=$installdir \ exec_installdir=$exec_installdir \ Makefile make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `/vol01/software/zope/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile' Current working directory /vol01/software/zope/lib/python/Products/ZPatterns *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `boot' ****************** What blockheaded thing am I doing? TIA! -- Steve. oo _\o \/\ \ / ____________________________________________ oo _________________ "Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug." - Knopfler Stephen C. Waterbury Component Technologies Code 562, NASA/GSFC and Radiation Effects Branch Greenbelt, MD 20771 Engineering Web/Database Specialist Tel: 301-286-7557 FAX: 301-286-1695 WWW: http://misspiggy.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/waterbug.html _________________________________________________________________