ImportError: No module named zipfile:
  File "SConstruct", line 24:
    import zipfile

and if I comment this out it fails in 

NameError: datetime:
  File "SConstruct", line 178:
    zipfilename = "csoundvst-" + sys.platform + "-" + str(datetime.date.today()) + ".zip"

so things are considerably worse from my point of view.

reverting somewhat I still have troubles

gcc -DCSOUND_WITH_API -DLINUX -g -O2 -Wall -DPIPES -DHAVE_FCNTL_H -DHAVE_UNISTD_H -DHAVE_MALLOC_H -DHAVE_SGTTY_H -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_STRINGS_H -DHAVE_DIRENT_H -DRTAUDIO -DWINDOWS -DUSE_FLTK -DBETA -I. -IH -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -c -o Top/csound.o Top/csound.c
Top/csound.c: In function `csoundPerform':
Top/csound.c:128: warning: implicit declaration of function `csoundMain'
Top/csound.c: In function `csoundInputMessage':
Top/csound.c:404: warning: implicit declaration of function `writeLine'
Top/csound.c: In function `csoundScoreEvent':
Top/csound.c:459: warning: implicit declaration of function `newevent'
Top/csound.c: In function `csoundSetRtplayCallback':
Top/csound.c:572: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
Top/csound.c: At top level:
Top/csound.c:601: `csoundDefaultMidiOpen' undeclared here (not in a function)
Top/csound.c: In function `defaultCsoundMakeGraph':
Top/csound.c:694: warning: implicit declaration of function `MakeGraph_'
Top/csound.c: In function `defaultCsoundDrawGraph':
Top/csound.c:715: warning: implicit declaration of function `DrawGraph_'
Top/csound.c: In function `defaultCsoundKillGraph':
Top/csound.c:735: warning: implicit declaration of function `KillAscii'
Top/csound.c: In function `csoundReset':
Top/csound.c:968: warning: implicit declaration of function `mainRESET'
Top/csound.c: At top level:
Top/csound.c:54: warning: `csoundJump_' defined but not used
scons: *** [Top/csound.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

Oh well......

==John ffitch