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Downloaded python2.1beta2. Used gcc 2.95.3 on HPUX 10.2

This time it blew up in different manner:
PYTHONPATH= ./python ./setup.py build
Fatal Python error: unknown scope for name in __init__(0) in
./Lib/site.py
symbols: {'data': 12, 'self': 12, 'files': 12, 'name': 12,
'None': 264, 'dirs': 12}
locals: {'self': 0}
globals: {'None': 1}

/bin/sh: 22414 Abort
gmake: *** [sharedmods] Error 134

Removed Objects/object.o and rebuilt it without the -O2
option and then the system fully built with no crashes.