[Python-Dev] Building 2.1.3 on RH9

[Skip Montanaro]

    Dennis> Seems to be broken -- at least _socket does not build correctly
    Dennis> because of openssl changes.  (Arggh... )

    Dennis> Where should this be reported?

Well, presuming it will be fixed, the correct place to report it is on the
Bugs page at

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/

However, the 2.1 series is getting to be pretty ancient history.  Even the
Python Business Forum, when scouting around for a "stable" version of Python
to use as py-in-a-tie chose 2.2.x.  There is almost certainly not going to
be a 2.1.4 (unless you volunteer to be the release manager).  2.3 was
released a couple weeks ago.

You should probably consider upgrading to 2.3 (or at least 2.2.3).  If
that's not possible, you might want to look at the _socket code in 2.2.3 or
2.3 for hints about how you can get the 2.1.3 version to compile.

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