(gdb) run -E setup.py build
Starting program: /dat1/home/sharad/python/Python-2.2/python -E setup.py build
[New LWP    2        ]
[New LWP    3        ]
running build
running build_ext
skipping 'struct' extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'regex' extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'pcre' extension (up-to-date)
skipping '_hotshot' extension (up-to-date)
skipping '_weakref' extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'xreadlines' extension (up-to-date)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xff136c5c in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
(gdb)