After mailing this I tried entering the last compile line by hand but changing -I to -I/usr/include/python2.2 and it worked fine.
I then did a make distclean and a ../unix/configure --enable-python=/usr//include/python2.2,/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages
and the first compile of make python still failed.
This doesn't look right here: --enable-python=/usr//include/python2.2,/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages
I think you want --enable-python --with-python=/usr
Just like the ./configure --help states
--with-python=PATH build the Mk4py extension for Python with headers in
`PATH/include/python2.2'; install the Mk4py modules in
`PATH/lib/python2.2/site-packages'. If PATH is of the
form `HEADER,LIB', search for header files in HEADER,
and install Mk4py in LIB. If you omit the `=PATH'
part, use the standard includedir and libdir.
http://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/mk-2.4.9-linux/
you will have to get the metakit.py file as well
http://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/
I think this is all an interested user would attempt, if the build process is undocumented and the obvious build steps fail even when you specify everything explicitly you really have to look for alternatives.
Well, configure is supposed to take care of most of the self documentation, but it is a hairy mess. Most of the time the standard dance ./configure; make install works just fine but when it doesn't, ouch. Even worse would be trying to target the python 2.3 environment since they change some important header types.
Anyway, metakit is migrating to the "python setup.py install" method which should be a bit easier and you could always download the binaries. I think they are RH9 compatible.
On another note, documentation for projects of this type usually come from the user community. We are being given a tool to use for no charge and need to support it properly. I've written some new python documentation, the original while nice had some gotchas for new users but I need reviewers. I've only had one so far, not a great response for something that has been a common complaint. Would someone like to write up some better installation documentation? I'll certainly act as reviewer.
Ed
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