I've been following these instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_PyXPCOM but getting this:

$ make
make export
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `export'.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `export'.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `export'.
/opt/local/bin/python2.5 ../../../src/config/nsinstall.py -L /usr/local/pyxpcom/build/xpcom/src -m 644 ../../../src/xpcom/src/PyXPCOM.h ../../dist/include
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `export'.
/opt/local/bin/python2.5 ../../../../src/config/nsinstall.py -D ../../../dist/idl
/opt/local/bin/python2.5 ../../../../src/config/nsinstall.py -D ../../../dist/idl
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `_xpidlgen/py_test_component.h', needed by `export'.  Stop.
make[3]: *** [export] Error 2
make[2]: *** [export] Error 2
make[1]: *** [export] Error 2
make: *** [default] Error 2

Any ideas?

An interesting anomaly is that despite me setting the PYTHON env variable to Python 2.6, the configure and make both seem to go after the 2.5...

Thanks for any advice!

PS here's the configure output:

$  ../src/configure --with-libxul-sdk=/Users/me/xulrunner-sdk/
loading cache ./config.cache
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Building Python extensions using python-2.5 from /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5
creating ./config.status
creating config/autoconf.mk
creating Makefile
creating xpcom/Makefile
creating xpcom/src/Makefile
creating xpcom/src/loader/Makefile
creating xpcom/src/module/Makefile
creating xpcom/components/Makefile
creating xpcom/test/Makefile
creating xpcom/test/test_component/Makefile
creating dom/Makefile
creating dom/src/Makefile
creating dom/test/Makefile
creating dom/test/pyxultest/Makefile
creating dom/nsdom/Makefile
creating dom/nsdom/test/Makefile