Compiling python-2.5 and trunk (r53624) on my Fedora Core 6 i386 works but does not use GNU readline because of the following excerpt from config.log:

configure:21255: gcc -pthread -o conftest -O2 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer   conftest.c -lreadline  -lpthread -l
dl  -lutil >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This seems related to http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2006-January/048725.html

python-2.4.4 works fine, but it does not contain the aforementionned commit.

Thanks.