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

[Neel Krishnaswami]

In article <MPG.11a2a389f734af92989728 at news.online.no>,
Alexander Staubo <nospam at mop.no> wrote:
>After doing a "make; make test", I get a failure in testing test_time.py. 
>Here's the output when I run the test on its own:
>
>tradecenter:/usr/src/python# python Lib/test/test_time.py
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "Lib/test/test_time.py", line 3, in ?
>    time.altzone
>AttributeError: altzone
>
>Maybe Python has a problem with EGCS? That said, the compilator does not 
>seem to output any errors (I'd be only happy to forward the make output 
>to anyone interested.) I have not tried making with plain GCC.

I can confirm that it's not limited to egcs, because I'm getting the
same error with gcc 2.7.2 and libc5. :) None of the module-level
variables in the time module are appearing for me, either.


Neel