you might want to read up on how to compile things using automake (the configure/make/make install-dance). do a ./configure --help to see if you can explicitly specify library and header locations and then configure with those explicitly set. if not then you might also be able to set some environment variables (CFLAGS and LDFLAGS) to point to the correct directories. jens On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 02:59 , Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote:

I am unable to install PoPy-2.0.6 on my Linux machine. On running configure i am getting this error.

[root@server-2 PoPy-2.0.6]# ./configure --with-python=/usr/lib/python2.1 --with-python-version=2.1 loading cache ./config.cache checking for python... /usr/lib/python2.1 checking python version... 2.1 checking python installation prefix... ./configure: /usr/lib/python2.1: is a directory

checking python installation exec_prefix... ./configure: /usr/lib/python2. 1: is a directory

checking definitions in Python library makefile... sed: can't read /lib/python2.1/config/Makefile: No such file or directory done checking for install... /usr/bin/install checking location of python library... ./configure: /usr/lib/python2.1: is a directory $(prefix) checking location of python shared modules... ./configure: /usr/lib/python2.1: is a directory $(exec_prefix) checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp checking for mxDateTime.h... yes checking location of mxDateTime... /DateTime checking for PQconnectStart in -lpq... no configure: error: can't build without PostgreSQL libraries [root@server-2 PoPy-2.0.6]#

I could find PostgreSql 7.0.3 folders in /usr/lib/ , /usr/include/ and /var/lib/

If any of you are using any simpler/ better methods of setting up postgres to work on zope, please let me know. Thanks in advance. - sree