Gary Nielson writes:

.... the binary that comes with zope is 1.5 megs, while I already have another binary that came with my mandrake 7.2 system, same version, 1.5.2, in /usr/bin. It is only 423k. Are there certain modules or whatever added to the binary that comes with Zope that I need to use? Zope uses dynamically loaded shared objects for C extensions.

Try to use your installed Python. If it has thread support, you have a good chance that it will work. If it does not work, you will be told in a clear way. Maybe, stripping the Zope distributed Python will reduce its size. Make a copy before stripping. It may be possible that symbols essential for dynamic linking are stripped, too. Dieter