The current CVS HEAD won't build "out of the box" on a Fedora x86_64 box, nor on any other Linux AMD64 platform. This is due to the fact that the libraries for many things are not in /usr/lib, but /usr/lib64, and the current 'autoconf' script, as well as the current setup.py do not look there. When added, they detect, build.
Logged In: YES user_id=205865 have you tried to port the patches from python 2.3.3 to HEAD? From your bug I understand they seem to work - do you have them?
Logged In: YES user_id=671513 Python 2.4b1 still doesn't build "out of the box" on a Fedora Core 2 x86_64 box. The patch that was submitted got munged when applied; '/usr/lib/lib64' was added instead of the correct value of '/usr/lib64'. I will submit a new patch once I track down 3 'unexpected skips' in the regression tests. /Bob P.S. I'm very happy with 2.4 so far; good work all!