Greetings.  A guy here is trying to build Zope on one of our systems.
Zope depends on python, and we have that installed on our RHEL and SL
systems.  The version is 2.2.  Unfortunately, the guy tells me that this
is the "buggy" version of python, and that Zope requires either version
2.1 or 2.3.

He's attempted to build python 2.3 from a source RPM, but he got a
couple of failed dependencies:

         Mesa-devel is needed by python2.3-2.3.4-1ied00
         libdb-4.0.so is needed by python2.3-2.3.4-1ied00

I think that the libdb dependency is a red herring, as libdb-4.1 is the
currently installed version on our RHEL and SL systems.  I.e., we can
probably work around that problem.

On the other hand, I don't know about the Mesa-devel issue.  I know that
  at one time in Redhat 7.x (as late as 7.2 at least) there was a
Mesa-devel package.  Now the closest thing I find is:

        XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-68.EL
        XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-68.EL

Does anybody know if one of these can substitute for Mesa-devel?  And/or
does anybody have suggestions for other approaches to the python/Zope issue?

Thanks.

                                        - Mike
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