On Apr 17, 2012, at 01:56 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:

>I stumbled upon this bug when trying to compile Python2.6 from source on
>Ubuntu 11.10. If this bug report or the related one issue11715 is a problem
>due to Ubuntu changes, I think, it is good inform in the download or news
>page. People try previous stable versions just to ensure that things are
>working fine. In this case, 2.7.x series work but 2.6.xx do not (I am not
>sure from which xx it started breaking).

Hi Senthil.  I added a note to the 2.6.8 download page and will carry this
forward to future point releases should there be any.  I also updated the
title for this issue to better reflect the actual problem.