1.5.2 build problems -- time module

[Neel Krishnaswami]

I'm trying to build the 1.5.2 version of Python from source on 
a SuSE Linux 5.3 system (kernel 2.0.34 and libc5). The compilation
went okay, but when I ran 'make test' I got the following error
in the regression tests:

test_time
test test_time crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : altzone

Investigating a bit further, I issued the following command at 
the Python command line:

>>> import time
>>> dir(time)
['__doc__', '__name__', 'accept2dyear', 'asctime', 'clock', 'ctime', 
'gmtime', 'localtime', 'mktime', 'sleep', 'strftime', 'strptime', 
'time']

So it's clear that none of the module-level variables for the time
module are there, but all the functions are present. (And the
functions seem to be working correctly.) Any ideas what's going wrong,
and what I need to do to fix it? (I recall some discussion of a
similar problem, but can't seem to find it on Dejanews; is it a bug
fixed in CVS, perhaps?)


Neel