Memory fault - core dumped while compiling 2.2.1 on SCO

[Anton Graph]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Anton Graph <aglyportREMOvethispart at nospam.yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Did not even take nearly as long for it to coredump. With optionless
>>configure build was going at least for a half an hour and this one
>>bailed out pretty much right away...
> 
> 
> Can you please try to run the resulting Python binary in a debugger
> (say, dbx), and report a backtrace?
> 

python -E setup.py build in gdb:

(gdb) where
#0  0x80016d06 in do_reloc () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0x80016bec in _relocate () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#2  0x800181fd in _rtld () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#3  0x80015569 in dlopen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#4  0x808e315 in _PyImport_GetDynLoadFunc ()
#5  0x8086ec0 in _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule ()
#6  0x8085372 in load_module ()
#7  0x8085ffb in import_submodule ()
#8  0x8085c01 in load_next ()
#9  0x808583e in import_module_ex ()
#10 0x8085988 in PyImport_ImportModuleEx ()
#11 0x80b7a61 in builtin___import__ ()
#12 0x80b629a in PyCFunction_Call ()
#13 0x80736dd in eval_frame ()
#14 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#15 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#16 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#17 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#18 0x80ab7cd in function_call ()
#19 0x809d8fc in PyObject_Call ()
#20 0x80a3225 in instancemethod_call ()
#21 0x809d8fc in PyObject_Call ()
#22 0x80759fc in do_call ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#23 0x80737c2 in eval_frame ()
#24 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#25 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#26 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#27 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#28 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#29 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#30 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#31 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#32 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#33 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#34 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#35 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#36 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#37 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#38 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#39 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#40 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#41 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#42 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#43 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#44 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#45 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#46 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#47 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#48 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#49 0x8075794 in fast_function ()
#50 0x80737a6 in eval_frame ()
#51 0x80748b6 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#52 0x8071542 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#53 0x808bb8e in run_node ()
#54 0x808bb46 in run_err_node ()
#55 0x808bb0f in PyRun_FileExFlags ()
#56 0x808aee1 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags ()
#57 0x808a9f2 in PyRun_AnyFileExFlags ()
#58 0x8052a64 in Py_Main ()
#59 0x8052300 in main ()
#60 0x805224b in _start ()

Noone around here admits making any changes in hardware or OS to the box 
I'm building on.