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Okay, I tried compiling using the Irix Mips compilers.  To
do this I did a ./configure --without-gcc.  However when
attempting to make it errored out.  Here is the last section
of the make output:

        ar cr libpython2.4.a Modules/config.o 
Modules/getpath.o  Modules/main.o  Modules/gcmodule.o 
        ar cr libpython2.4.a Modules/threadmodule.o 
Modules/signalmodule.o  Modules/posixmodule.o 
Modules/errnomodule.o  Modules/_sre.o 
Modules/_codecsmodule.o  Modules/zipimport.o 
Modules/symtablemodule.o  Modules/xxsubtype.o
        : libpython2.4.a
         c++   -o python \
                        Modules/python.o \
                        libpython2.4.a -lsocket -lnsl -ldl 
-lpthread -lmpc   -lm  
ld32: WARNING 84 : /usr/lib32/libsocket.so is not used for
resolving any symbol.
ld32: WARNING 84 : /usr/lib32/libnsl.so is not used for
resolving any symbol.
ld32: WARNING 84 : /usr/lib32/libdl.so is not used for
resolving any symbol.
ld32: FATAL   9  : I/O error (-lmpc): No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 32 exit status
*** Error code 1 (bu21)

The patch is relatively the same as the hack I tried
earlier, and noted in a follow-up.  But as pointed out
test_socketserver doesn't work ("Use of the `network'
resource not enabled") and _locale doesn't work ("***
WARNING: renaming "_locale" since importing it failed:
1774654:./python: rld: Fatal Error: unresolvable symbol in
build/lib.irix64-6.5-2.4/_locale.so: libintl_dcgettext")

I'm not sure what else to try in order to get this working.