Python 2.1.1 on old Debian box with Linux kernel 2.0.39

[Duncan Grisby]

In article <3B8106F2.B946B1B5 at stroeder.com>,
 Michael Ströder  <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:

>I have troubles installing Python 2.1.1 on an old Debian box with
>Linux kernel 2.0.39. The kernel sources are available. Building the
>socket module fails with error message:
>
>/tmp/W3311/Python-2.1.1/Modules/socketmodule.c:178:
>netpacket/packet.h: No such file or directory

I had the same problem on an ancient RedHat 5 machine, where the
problem was due to glibc 2.0 missing out some things that are in glibc
2.1. The problems are all fixed in the CVS version of Python. (Unless
they've broken again since my patch was added.)

Cheers,

Duncan.

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