Hello all, I have tried everything that I can think of (& a lot of what some of you could think of) to get MySQLdb to compile and install. I have had no luck. So, I am now trying to install MySQLDA (a step back) and am still having no luck. I'm hoping that the MySQLDA problem is related to the MySQLdb problem and that one of you will be able to point me in the right direction. Here's what happens when I try to install MySQLDA: First, the 'make -f Makefile.pre.in boot' script seems to work fine, but I'll include the output anyway, just in case. <OUTPUT OF make -f Makefile.pre.in boot> # make -f Makefile.pre.in boot 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[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/Zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/src' sed -n \ -e '1s/.*/1i\\/p' \ -e '2s%.*%# Generated automatically from Makefile.pre.in by sedscript.%p' \ -e '/^VERSION=/s/^VERSION=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@VERSION[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^CC=/s/^CC=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@CC[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^CCC=/s/^CCC=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%#@SET_CCC[@]%CCC=\1%/p' \ -e '/^LINKCC=/s/^LINKCC=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@LINKCC[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^OPT=/s/^OPT=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@OPT[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^LDFLAGS=/s/^LDFLAGS=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@LDFLAGS[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^DEFS=/s/^DEFS=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@DEFS[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^LIBS=/s/^LIBS=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@LIBS[@]%\1%/p' \ in src]# ยก -e '/^LIBC=/s/^LIBC=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@LIBC[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^RANLIB=/s/^RANLIB=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@RANLIB[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^MACHDEP=/s/^MACHDEP=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@MACHDEP[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^SO=/s/^SO=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@SO[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^LDSHARED=/s/^LDSHARED=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@LDSHARED[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^CCSHARED=/s/^CCSHARED=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@CCSHARED[@]%\1%/p' \ -e ORSHARED=/s/^LINKFORSHARED=[ ]*\(.*\)/s%@LINKFORSHARED[@]%\1%/p' \ -e '/^prefix=/s/^prefix=\(.*\)/s%^prefix=.*%prefix=\1%/p' \ -e '/^exec_prefix=/s/^exec_prefix=\(.*\)/s%^exec_prefix=.*%exec_prefix=\1%/p' \ /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile >sedscript echo "/^#@SET_CCC@/d" >>sedscript echo "/^installdir=/s%=.*%= /usr%" >>sedscript echo "/^exec_installdir=/s%=.*%=/usr%" >>sedscript echo "/^srcdir=/s%=.*%= .%" >>sedscript echo "/^VPATH=/s%=.*%= .%" >>sedscript echo "/^LINKPATH=/s%=.*%= %" >>sedscript echo "/^BASELIB=/s%=.*%= %" >>sedscript echo "/^BASESETUP=/s%=.*%= %" >>sedscript sed -f sedscript ./Makefile.pre.in >Makefile.pre /usr/lib/python1.5/config/makesetup \ -m Makefile.pre -c /usr/lib/python1.5/config/config.c.in Setup -n /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Setup make -f Makefile do-it-again make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/Zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/src' /usr/lib/python1.5/config/makesetup \ -m Makefile.pre -c /usr/lib/python1.5/config/config.c.in Setup -n /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Setup make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/Zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/Zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/src' </OUTPUT OF make -f Makefile.pre.in boot> Next I ran 'make' <OUTPUT OF make> # make gcc -fpic -g -O2 -I/usr/include/python1.5 -I/usr/include/python1.5 -DHAVE_CO NFIG_H -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/usr/include/mysql -c ./MySQLmodule.c ./MySQLmodule.c: In function `pythonify_row': ./MySQLmodule.c:238: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type ./MySQLmodule.c: In function `pythonify_res_fields': ./MySQLmodule.c:384: invalid lvalue in unary `&' ./MySQLmodule.c: In function `STH_fetchdict': ./MySQLmodule.c:1125: invalid lvalue in unary `&' ./MySQLmodule.c:1147: invalid lvalue in unary `&' make: *** [MySQLmodule.o] Error 1 </OUTPUT OF make> Any help is greaty appreciated!! Eric.