It's me again, the power-luser from http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2002-January/107872.html So I followed Chris McDonough's advice and installed 2.1, and then 2.1.2. Still no luck: Python 2.1.2 + Zope fresh from sources. The same two tarballs build and run on FreeBSD 4.5. ,----[ zope-error ] | make: don't know how to make ././src/ISO_8859_1_Splitter.c. Stop in /usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter. | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/w_pcgi.py", line 39, in ? | if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv[0]) | File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/w_pcgi.py", line 37, in main | import wo_pcgi; wo_pcgi.main(me) | File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/wo_pcgi.py", line 33, in main | import build_extensions | File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/inst/build_extensions.py", line 38, in ? | make('lib','python','Products','PluginIndexes','TextIndex','Splitter','ISO_8859_1_Splitter') | File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/inst/do.py", line 63, in make | do('make') | File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.5.0-src/inst/do.py", line 32, in do | if i and picky: raise SystemError, i | SystemError: 512 | `----