Neal> * On Solaris 8, build of the bz2 module failed for one Neal> correspondent; this may depend on the specific release or Neal> provisioning of the box. Neal> * The test for the logging module fails for some people on Neal> Solaris and Mac OS X. A patch has been applied to CVS that Neal> hopefully fixes this. Neal> Skip, I think you had both of these problems. Is everything ok Neal> for you? Maybe I'm just suffering from bit rot caused by old age, but I didn't recognize either item. I located the bz2 problem in the archives. After a fair bit of fiddling, I got 2.3b2 installed and built on Solaris 8. "make test" showed this output at the end: 225 tests OK. 29 tests skipped: test_aepack test_al test_bsddb185 test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_curses test_email_codecs test_gdbm test_gl test_imgfile test_linuxaudiodev test_macfs test_macostools test_mpz test_nis test_normalization test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_plistlib test_scriptpackages test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sunaudiodev test_timeout test_unicode_file test_urllibnet test_winreg test_winsound 2 skips unexpected on sunos5: test_sunaudiodev test_nis and running those two tests alone works: $ ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py test_bz2 test_logging test_bz2 test_logging All 2 tests OK. so I guess the logging and bz2 problems are kaput. Skip