Stephen M McQuay added the comment:
I cobbled together a mix of what I found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1976837
http://blog.schmichael.com/2012/05/29/building-python-2-6-8-on-ubuntu-12-04/
and got python 2.6 to build fine on modern Ubuntu :
% python -mplatform
Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com added the comment:
Hi Barry,
I stumbled upon this bug when trying to compile Python2.6 from source on Ubuntu
11.10. If this bug report or the related one issue11715 is a problem due to
Ubuntu changes, I think, it is good inform in the download or news
Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment:
On Apr 17, 2012, at 01:56 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
I stumbled upon this bug when trying to compile Python2.6 from source on
Ubuntu 11.10. If this bug report or the related one issue11715 is a problem
due to Ubuntu changes, I think, it is
Jan Groenewald jan.groenew...@gmail.com added the comment:
I am trying to build www.sagemath.org on ubuntu 10.04 natty beta 2 for amd64.
Bear with me.
Sage includes a patched version of python2.6.4, and it fails to build
modules nis and crypt.
Upstream python 2.6.4, 2.6.6, and 2.7.1 fail to
Jan Groenewald jan.groenew...@gmail.com added the comment:
Oops, correction. Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2 for amd64.
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Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org
http://bugs.python.org/issue9762
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Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment:
On Apr 17, 2011, at 01:46 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
Jan Groenewald jan.groenew...@gmail.com added the comment:
I am trying to build www.sagemath.org on ubuntu 10.04 natty beta 2 for amd64.
Bear with me.
As described in your follow up, the
Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment:
Closing this because I can't think of anything better than your workaround
(plus, I was apparently unable to reproduce it).
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resolution: - fixed
status: open - closed
title: build failures - PEP 3149 related build failures
