problems buildin python interface to fuse

[JiggaHertz]

I'm trying to build the python interface to fuse and this is my first
time using python. I'm getting the following errors

[jh@localhost ~/build/fuse-python]# python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 16, in ?
py_modules=["fuse"],
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 907, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 927, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build.py", line 107, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 927, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 244,
in run
customize_compiler(self.compiler)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 159, in
customize_compiler
cpp = cc + " -E" # not always
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

I was originally receiving the following error...

[jh@localhost ~/build/fuse-python]# python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

but I solved this by simply copying the included makefile to the
python2.3/config directory...

Thanks,
JiggaHertz