[Zope] Newbie MySQLDA help

[Darcy Clark]

After a frustrating afternoon of getting nowhere I turn to the list for help.

I am trying to get Zope, MySQL and MySQLDA installed. I am a relative
newbie to Linux and Zope, but I can follow instructions like a champion.

First observation - Digital Creations seems to have depreciated support
for MySQLDA. I did find the DA at the old site : http://www.zope.org:8080/Download/ZMySQLDA

Unfortunately, the instructions at the above URL seem a little strange
in that half way through it starts referring to ZSolidDA ? In any case,'
make -f Makefile.pre.in boot' doesn't work. I get the same error
reported by another user [see http://www.egroups.com/list/zope/md78304253.html]

So then I tried another tack : installing the MySQLdb package from
http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman/ which seems to include a patch
to MySQLDA. So I unpack a fresh copy of Zope2.01, unpack MySQLDA 1.1.3.
I don't install or make anything figuring I should apply all the patches
before I install anything. I then try to run "python build.py" from the
MySQLdb package. Unfortunately, the MySQLdb installation instructions
are a little brief. In any case I get an error
"/usr/lib/python1.5/config/MakeFile.pre.in: no such file or directory
exists", which is no surprise because it doesn't exist. Do I have to
create this directory ? Where should I unpack the MySQLdb package ? 

Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated.

Darcy
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