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Would that be something like the message
(<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:Bruce+author:D.+author:Ray&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=r&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=7&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=30&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=2004&selm=spamtrap-1507041215070001%40physics.nmr.iupui.edu&rnum=1>)
I posted to comp.lang.python 15 Jul. 2004?

I posted that back before I managed to tease out of the various
convolutions of the build hints that there might be a
problem in the
construction of a Makefile that points the build to the
wrong directory.
As hinted at in that article, I had already done a search of
the publicly
available documentation on python (actually several searches
including
a download and grep of these).  I also did searches of
comp.lang.python for anything related to SGI, Silicon
Graphics, or
Irix; and of comp.sys.sgi.* for anything related to python
(if you wish
to reproduce this, you might want to exclude the strings
"dat" and
"tape" because of the many queries there on how to use a
Python brand
drive for archiving).

By 21 Jul. 2004, when I opened this, I was persuaded that I
have found
a bug in the build, or at least a deficiency in the
documentation for
build and install.

I believe that I have found a bug in the distribution with
respect to
building on SGI with MIPSpro 7.3 compilers a python with support
for available SGI functionality.  Thank-you kindly for your
reply, but
I really am reporting what appears to be a bug. 
Accordingly, I will
leave this open.