Due the problems reported with version 2.3 I thought I
would give version 2.2.3 a shot. The problem I am
having here is no matter what switches I pass configure
to disable threading it still tries to test them and as
a result the make test fails.

168 tests OK.
1 test failed:
    test_threading
24 tests skipped:
    test_al test_asynchat test_bsddb test_cd test_cl
test_curses
    test_dl test_email_codecs test_fork1 test_gl
test_imgfile
    test_linuxaudiodev test_minidom test_openpty
test_pyexpat
    test_queue test_sax test_socket_ssl
test_socketserver test_thread
    test_threaded_import test_threadedtempfile test_winreg
    test_winsound

--------

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-gnu-ld
--with-as=/usr/local/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld
--enable-nls   --with-included-gettext --with-fpectl
--with-threads=no --without-threads --disable-threads
--with-gnu-as

--------

mars$ /files/local/src/Python-2.2.3/python
test_threading.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_threading.py", line 7, in ?
    import threading
  File
"/files/local/src/Python-2.Lib/threading.py", line
5, in ?
    import thread
ImportError: No module named thread