error on building 2.6.1. (_ctypes)

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:52:07 -0200, Bernard Rankin <berankin99 at yahoo.com>  
escribió:

>> > I am trying to build python 2.6 on a machine (web server) that I do  
>> not have
>> root access to. (has 2.4 installed)
>> >
>> > Python 2.5 builds fine, but I am getting an error when I run "make"  
>> for 2.6.1.

>> Mmm... my 2.6.1 source show different line numbers, maybe you should  
>> check it's
>> the right file?
>
> Wow, good catch.
>
> I just re-downloaded the archive and it works fine.
>
> I know for certain that I did no editing to the files, and even tried  
> expanding the original tar.gz a couple of times.
>
> There must be a corrupted package somewhere among the official Python  
> mirrors.  (Sadly, I overwrote the old tar.gz file when I got the new  
> one.)

Oops... so bad. The python.org releases have PGP signatures and MD5  
published so you can verify their authenticity.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina