Building 2.1.1 on Python

[Tim Roberts]

I upgraded by old Linux RedHat 6.1 machine from Python 1.5 to Python 2.1.1
today, and I encountered a surprise.

After untarring, I did:
  ./configure --with-threads
  make
  make install

I then tried loading a Webware page as a test, and to my dismay got an
error.  In socket.py, the line "from _socket import *" failed saying that
module _socket was not found.

Eventually, I went into Modules/Setup and uncommented one of the two
_socket declarations, rebuilt, and it worked fine, but I was surprised that
the out-of-the-box installation didn't work.

SHould I have been surprised?  Or did I miss something?

Almost everything in Modules/Setup is commented out, although many of the
commented-out modules work perfectly well.  Are those loaded in some other
way?
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.