Hi, I need help building the PostGreSQL database adapter on Linux. Sigh... why is installing everything on Linux such a nightmare? ZPyGreSQLDA installation is in such a primitive stage... I don't understand... it's like it's written to work with one very particular directory structure at the author's machine, and the heck with the rest of the world. :) Why not just write something to build the C Python module in place and then tell the user to move the compile C Python module (.so) to whereever it needs to be moved? The problem now is that the ZPyGreSQLDA/Makefile.pre.in has all kinds of settings of folder structures that don't match with my folder structure. I get the following error: (yes yes, I have played with PATH and the <prefix> variable mentioned inside Makefile.pre.in... and by the way, the FTP site ftp://www.eevolute.com/pub/python/ mentioned in README.linux no longer exists.) ---------------------------------------------------------- [hjlu@www src]$ 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 `/u/c2/hjlu/lwc_zope_current/lib/python/Products/ZPy GreSQLDA/src' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/u/c2/hjlu/lwc_zope/lib/python1.5/config/Ma kefile', needed by `sedscript'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/c2/hjlu/lwc_zope_current/lib/python/Products/ZPyG reSQLDA/src' make: *** [boot] Error 2 --------------------------------------------------------- Not that I like to complain, but every time I run into a trouble, dozens more people will run into the same problem. I still remember when I complained about some other database adapter, someone popped up and said "I have been running it with ZERO problem"... and 3 months later the same person was screaming about the very database adapter that that supposingly had "ZERO problem". Things do improve. I remember the days when Python couldn't be installed easily, but nowadays even the Tcl/Tk part of Python has been absorbed into a single installer on Windows system. And it's as trivial as one-click-does-it-all. PostGreSQL has been around for a while, now. And I guess we all could do a little bit more towards making the installation of the adapter easier. Hung Jung ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com