installation probs on SGI: _socket package removed.

[Nhi Vanye]

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>When building python on SGI IRIX646 I've notice that although the
>_socket library compiled and linked ok, the 'make' process failed to
>import _socket and removed it.
>Following the advice I found here at the newsgroup I attempted to
>manually compile and link _socket.so, then tried importing it from
>python.
>The results: An exception was thrown saying the symbol __eprintf was
>not defined in the shared object.
>Has anyone encountered this problem and have any help on this?
>What library is the symbol __eprintf defined in?

Is this the SGI Freeware distribution or are you building from scratch ?

richard.

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