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Some additional observations:

socketmodule.c compiles with gcc 3.3 under IRIX 6.5.21 after 
applying this simple-minded patch (relative to Python 2.4):

--- socketmodule.c.orig 2004-11-07 06:24:25.000000000 -
0800
+++ socketmodule.c      2004-12-30 08:06:01.896160200 -
0800
@@ -280,6 +280,10 @@
 #  include "addrinfo.h"
 #endif
 
+#if defined(__sgi) && defined(__GNUC__) && !defined
(NI_NUMERICHOST)
+#  define NI_NUMERICHOST 0x00000002
+#endif
+
 #ifndef HAVE_INET_PTON
 int inet_pton(int af, const char *src, void *dst);
 const char *inet_ntop(int af, const void *src, char *dst, 
socklen_t size);


This test works OK:

./python Lib/test/test_socket.py

But this one doesn't:

./python Lib/test/test_socketserver.py