I have for some months now been utilising, very successfully, gvibDA on Windows 2000 with Zope 2.3.2 and Firebird. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for RedHat 7.1 (very much a Linux newbie so be gentle ;- ). I have installed the latest Zope 2.4.1b (which uses Python2.1) and Firebird binaries and they are working fine. However when I compile gviBase.so and attempt to use it within Zope or Python (both 1.5 rpm and 2.1.1 compiled from source) I get Import error: undefined symbol isc_dsql_execute I assume this means that the compile process cannot see the Firebird shared library libgds.so, but I can't see why. I have tryed to edit the Setup.in file to import /usr/lib/libgds.so instead of the more usual -lgds but it makes no difference. Can anybody help me out? I have also tryed kinterbasdb, but when I import it I get Import error: undefined symbol crypt I know I'm supposed to editing kinterbasdb's Makefile to include -lcrypt but I'm not sure where. gvib is my main priority, but a copy of an appropriate Makefile for kinterbasdb would also be much appreciated. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Robert Kellock Ph: +64 3 326 6115 Sales Manager Fax: +64 3 326 6115 Credit Systems Control Ltd Web: www.creditscore.co.nz "making decisions easy" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------