Linux compile Q's Python 2.1

[myself]

Sorry to bother you guys so soon after my last post, but.......

being unable to properly install from srpm, figured to just
compile/install from source- did it a year or so ago for 1.5, shouldn't be
a big whoop. Bzzzt.

./configure- ok

made a few changes in Modules/Setup, "make", "make test":

17 tests skipped: test_al test_bsddb test_cd test_cl test_dbm test_dl
test_gl test_imgfile test_largefile test_minidom test_nis test_pyexpat
test_sax test_sunaudiodev test_sundry test_winreg test_winsound

doesn't look tragic, seems like I had more skipped tests last time, but
you guys be final arbiters.... "make altinstall libinstall"- well I'm a
bit afraid latest Py will break something the system might need WRT Py
1.5.2, but only error of note (to my untrained eye) seems reasonable:
I'll have to manually update sys.path. So now I'm looking at creating a
script to start my shiny new IDLE (.08?)- but it *didn't* get installed-
the sources are in my install directory, but nada in
python2.1/site-packages (or anwhere else in /usr/local). What did I
miss?? So:

[root at K7 Python-2.1]# make uninstall
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.

how rude  :-( !  I really wanted to start fresh, partly 'cause I didn't
realize that some/most/all of my mods to Setup are handled automagically
by setup.py. Running Mandrake 7.2, gcc-2.95.2-12mdk, installing from
Python-2.1.tgz from Pythonlabs. tcl/tk seemed to install fine. Clues?
Please? (I've surely left out the imp't stuff, but if I knew what it was,
probably wouldn't need to come a beggin' :-> ). PS- I don't have a
PYTHONHOME set (noticed it was a prob. for others).

TIA, y'all (yep, we _really_do_say_that_).....