Make test fails on time module with Python 1.5.2/Linux2/EGCS! Help!

[Alexander Staubo]

In article <87wvyc30a6.fsf at slip-32-100-202-120.ma.us.ibm.net>, 
meowing at banet.net says...
> Alexander Staubo <nospam at mop.no> writes:
> 
> > (Note: I _think_ I am using libc5. I didn't set up the system, and I 
> > don't know how to tell which version I have. Suggestions?)
> 
> $ ldd /usr/local/bin/python
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40003000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40006000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40015000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002e000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2aaaa000)
> 
> This Python is linked to glibc, so it shows libc.so.6. It it was
> libc5, it would show (you guessed it) libc.so.5.

tradecenter:/usr/src/python# ldd python
        libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000a000)
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000d000)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40016000)

No thread support, though: Doesn't this go along with libc-5?

So I tried doing "./configure --with-thread ; make clean ; make" as per 
the Python README, but compilation fails with threadmodule.c giving me an 
error saying that I ought to enable the --with-thread parameter with 
configure and remake. (This is with Python 1.5.1, which I brought in 
because of Zope, but I _guess_ the same problem is in 1.5.2.)
 
Alexander Staubo
http://www.mop.no/~alex/
mailto:redhand at mop.no