Trouble compiling xchat-2.0.3

[Rodd Clarkson <r-list clarkson id au>]

I'm getting the following error trying to compile xchat-2.0.3.

cc -shared  python.lo  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/rodd/gnome-2.3.5/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/rodd/gnome-2.3.5/lib  -L/home/rodd/gnome-2.3.5/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr//rodd/gnome-2.3.5/lib/python2.2/site-packages/config -lpython2.2 -lpthread -lutil -L/usr/kerberos/lib -lssl -lcrypto -lresolv -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lz -ldl /home/rodd/gnome-2.3.5/lib/libglib-2.0.so  -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-soname -Wl,python.so -o .libs/python.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [python.la] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rodd/hacking-0.26.0/gnome/xchat/work/main.d/xchat-2.0.3/plugins/python'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rodd/hacking-0.26.0/gnome/xchat/work/main.d/xchat-2.0.3/plugins'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rodd/hacking-0.26.0/gnome/xchat/work/main.d/xchat-2.0.3'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rodd/hacking-0.26.0/gnome/xchat/work/main.d/xchat-2.0.3'
make: *** [build-work/main.d/xchat-2.0.3/Makefile] Error 2


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