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Author stephen.mcquay
Recipients Arfrever, Jan.Groenewald, barry, georg.brandl, orsenthil, stephen.mcquay
Date 2012-08-20.23:38:55
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I cobbled together a mix of what I found here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1976837
http://blog.schmichael.com/2012/05/29/building-python-2-6-8-on-ubuntu-12-04/

and got python 2.6 to build fine on modern Ubuntu :

% python -mplatform
Linux-3.2.0-29-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
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Date User Action Args
2012-08-20 23:39:19stephen.mcquaysetrecipients: + stephen.mcquay, barry, georg.brandl, orsenthil, Arfrever, Jan.Groenewald
2012-08-20 23:39:18stephen.mcquaysetmessageid: <1345505958.34.0.197339793308.issue9762@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-08-20 23:38:57stephen.mcquaylinkissue9762 messages
2012-08-20 23:38:56stephen.mcquaycreate