Want to help with the laudable goal of automating the Python build process? It'll need lots of testing on many different platforms, and I'd like to start the process now. First, download the setup.py script from http://www.amk.ca/files/python/setup.py Next, drop it in the root directory of your Python source tree and run "python setup.py build". If it dies with an exception, let me know. (Replies to this list are OK.) If it runs to completion, look in the Modules/build/lib.<something> directory to see which modules got built. (On my system, <something> is "linux-i686-2.0", but of course this will depend on your platform.) Is anything missing that should have been built? (_tkinter.so is the prime candidate; the autodetection code is far too simple at the moment and assumes one particular version of Tcl and Tk.) Did an attempt at building a module fail? These indicate problems autodetecting something, so if you can figure out how to find the required library or include file, let me know what to do. --amk