On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:41:56PM -0500, Brad Chapman wrote: > > I am also getting the errors: > > configure.in:40: [[error: [[[backquotes and double quotes should not be backslashed in: [[configure: error: [Couldn't find the python config makefile. Maybe you are > > missing the development portion of the python installation]]]]]]] > > ]configure.in:40: /usr/bin/m4: Non-numeric argument to built-in `m4exit' > > Hmmm, I've never really seen this, but it seems like the problem might > be indicated in this last message. I think many linux systems come > with python pre-installed, but do not include the headers and things, > which you'll need to compile piper since it builds C++ extensions to > python. > > Let me know if this helps. I have the python headers... The problem was that I was using autoconf-2.14. I switched back to 2.13 and it worked fine. Might want to put a note about that in the build instructions? -jason