newbie needs help building Python 2.5 for Fedora Core 6

[Tony Nelson]

In article <1172355934.549788.59820 at a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
 "bobmon" <bobmon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, and please be gentle...
> 
> I'm trying to build Python 2.5 on my Fedora Core 6 installation.  I
> think I've resolved most of my problems, but "make test" reports an
> error for test_socket.py, shown below.
> 
> I suppose my FC6 installation is missing something, but I have no idea
> what.  Any ideas, directions, pointers would be most appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> ======================================================================
>  ERROR: testSockName (__main__.GeneralModuleTests)
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 456, in testSockName
>      my_ip_addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
>  gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
> 
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Ran 66 tests in 35.478s
> 
>  FAILED (errors=1)
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 962, in <module>
>      test_main()
>    File "./Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 958, in test_main
>      test_support.run_unittest(*tests)
>    File "/home/Installer/Python/Python-2.5/Lib/test/test_support.py",
> line 441, in run_uni
>  ttest
>      run_suite(suite, testclass)
>    File "/home/Installer/Python/Python-2.5/Lib/test/test_support.py",
> line 426, in run_sui
>  te
>      raise TestFailed(err)
>  test.test_support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 456, in testSockName
>      my_ip_addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
>  gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

OK, so this fails:

    my_ip_addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

Try it from the python command line.  This is what happens when I try it 
on FC6 w/ Python 2.5 (retyped, tho):

>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostname()
'localhost.localdomain'
>>> socket.gethostbyname(_)
'127.0.0.1'
>>>
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