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Got it down to one error:
% > ./python Lib/test/test_socket.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 6, in ?
    import socket
  File "/usr/local/spider/lib/python2.3/socket.py", line 44,
in ?
    import _socket
ImportError: 210454:./python: rld: Fatal Error: unresolvable
symbol in
/usr/local/spider/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/_socketmodule.so:
_xpg5_accept

xpg5_accept does appear in any library on our SGI's that are
only 1-2 years old. It does appear in libc in very recent
revisions of Irix (> 6.5.19?)

Does anyone know how to get Python 2.3 to avoid the use of
xpg5_accept?

Thanks