Michael Hannon wrote:
> 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.
>
Just out of curiousity ... has this person actually used RedHat's version of
python 2.2?  Or has he just used the generic python 2.2 straight from python?

I ask that because we use plone, which uses zope, on a couple of machines
using S.L., which is using the python 2.2.3.  We haven't had any problems.

> 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
>

Where did he get this source rpm?  There hasn't been a combination of
libraries like that for any of the redhat based distributions.
Mesa-devel was back in RedHat 7.1
libdv-4.0 was in RedHat 9

> 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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> Michael Hannon            mailto:[log in to unmask]
> Dept. of Physics          530.752.4966
> University of California  530.752.4717 FAX
> Davis, CA 95616-8677

Personally, I think you should just install zope with the python that comes
with Scientific Linux.

If your friend is dead set against, that, then he should get the source rpm
from python.org, because that one compiled on my machine without any problem.

Hope that helps
Troy
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