I'm trying to install Zope 2.7 on Debian. I'm using the following software: python 2.3.3 gnu make 3.80 gcc 3.3.3 I'm running the following configure command as a non-root user (tom): ./configure --prefix=/opt/Zope-2.7 The /opt/Zope-2.7 directory exists, with an owner and group of "tom". I don't get any errors when I run "configure". It says that I have the "optimum version of python". However, run I run "make" as user tom, I get hundreds of errors and warnings, and I finally end with the following error: error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 make: *** [build] Error 1 The errors seems to start the with the following line: gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/tmp/Zope-2.7.0/lib/Components/ExtensionClass/src -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c AccessControl/cAccessControl.c -o /tmp/Zope-2.7.0/build-base/python-2.3/build-temp/AccessControl/cAccessControl.o This is the only time that gcc is called before the program crashes. Also, here are the last couple of lines that I get before make crashes (which look just like the 200 lines before them): AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:2237: error: initializer element is not constant AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:2237: error: (near initialization for `RestrictedDTMLMixinType.methods.link') AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:2237: error: initializer element is not constant AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:2237: error: (near initialization for `RestrictedDTMLMixinType.methods') error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 I found someone else who was getting the same errors online (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=18&threadi...). However, this guy was trying to compile Zope 2.7 with python 2.3.1. I'm really stuck. Any help that I could get would be greatly apprecaited! Tom Purl