Python 2.2 seriously crippled for numerical computation?

[Tim Peters]

[jochen at bock.chem.unc.edu]
> Ok, looking at SourceForge and google this seems to be fixed in cvs
> HEAD.  Would it be possible to put the same patch into the cvs
> python-2.2 branch, please? [1]
>
> Greetings,
> Jochen
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  If it is in there, it doesn't work for me with current python cvs
>      branch release22-maint.  I still have to manually add -lieee.
>      (RedHat-7.0 with current updates.)

I don't know what "current" meant to you at the time you wrote this.
Michael Hudson did backport the patch into 2.2.1c1, which was released
yesterday.  So please try 2.2.1c1, and if you still have a problem, file a
bug report about it on SourceForge.  2.2.1 final is expected in about a
week.