Using Misc/RPM/python-2.5.spec, Python 2.5b2 fails to
compile into an RPM on my machine (SuSE 10.1, AMD64,
gcc 4.1). Unlike with b1, I get loads of errors saying:

"ld: cannot find -lpython2.5"

The funny thing is that it continues to build and only
fails at the end when collecting the files for the RPM.

I use

configure --enable-shared --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
   --enable-ipv6 --with-pymalloc --prefix=/usr  \
   --libdir=/usr/lib64

The shared library is correctly built before these
errors come up. The error appear on the "sharedmods"
target. I also tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH by hand,
although the build script sets it before starting to
build the modules - no help.

What *does* help is adding "-L." to the LDFLAGS in
Makefile.pre.in:

sed -e '/DIR=.*lib$/ s|/lib$|/%{libdirname}| ;  \
        /LDFLAGS/ s|LDFLAGS=|LDFLAGS= -L. |'    \
    ./Makefile.pre.in.old >Makefile.pre.in

The "DIR=" is for an x86_64 bug that installs Python to
the wrong directory (/usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64).

I tried building Py2.5 by hand (configure/make) and
that also works nicely.

I attached a patch that fixes the problems I encountered.