[Zope] Trouble building Zope on BSDi 3.0

[Pete Beazley]

Since I haven't found an applicable Zope binary for BSDi on an Intel box,
I've decided to try and build Zope myself. I'm trying to build it on a
remote virtual server running BSDi 3.0 and either get a traceback or no
errors but without generation of username/password.

The virtual Unix host is running BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 Virtual Kernel #0
I built Python 1.5.2 with threads and also added -rdynamic to LDSHARED in
Makefile.pre.in
Per the Zope Installatino FAQ, I've also tried changing do('make') to
do('make -k') in inst/do.py

When I run "python w_pcgi.py" the build goes quite a long ways and finally
crashes with:

creating default access file
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "w_pcgi.py", line 111, in ?
    if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv[0])
  File "w_pcgi.py", line 109, in main
    import wo_pcgi; wo_pcgi.main(me)
  File "/usr/home/clearlyo/util/Zope-2.0.1-src/wo_pcgi.py", line 106, in
main
    import zpasswd; zpasswd.write_access(home, user, group)
  File "/usr/home/clearlyo/util/Zope-2.0.1-src/zpasswd.py", line 128, in
write_access
    pw = pw + whrandom.choice(pw_choices)
  File "/usr/home/clearlyo/usr/local/lib/python1.5/whrandom.py", line 97, in
choice
    return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))]
OverflowError: float too large to convert

If I try to build again, I don't always get this traceback, but I never get
a username or password as I expect per the installation instructions.

If I try to run ./start, I get this traceback:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/home/clearlyo/util/Zope-2.0.1-src/z2.py", line 375, in ?
    exec "import "+MODULE in {}
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/home/clearlyo/util/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py",
line 95, in ?
    import Globals, OFS.Application, sys
  File
"/usr/home/clearlyo/util/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/OFS/Application.py", line
96, in ?
    from AccessControl.User import UserFolder
  File
"/usr/home/clearlyo/util/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/AccessControl/User.py",
line 306, in ?
    raise 'InstallError', 'Invalid format for access file - see INSTALL.txt'
InstallError: Invalid format for access file - see INSTALL.txt

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
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