Well, I'm not able to track down the exact problem, but the python2.3_2.3.4-18_amd64.deb package currently available from alioth is hosed. I attached my sources.list for reference.
Here's what I've tried so far. First I did 'apt-get source python2.3' which as per my other recent e-mail grabs python2.3_2.3.4-16. Building this on my system using dpkg-buildpackage and the necessary dependencies produces a working binary which does not segfault when reportbug goes to query the Debian BTS. I also grabbed the original tar and diff files via http://packages.debian.org/ for python2.3_2.3.4-18 and built again using dpkg-buildpackage. Again, this produces a working binary. I compiled both -16 and -18 with and without -ggdb. All four versions worked. It's only the version available currently on alioth which breaks. Not sure how that's even possible really unless the build environment which is producing the package is using a different version of gcc. Anyway, since this is specific to the current amd64 gcc-3.4 repository, I'll leave it at that. Maybe someone on this list can shed some light on the problem. -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: Computing and Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas A&M University http://ops.tamu.edu/nipsy/ College Station, TX 77843-3142 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL++++$ P--->+++ L+++$ !E--- W++(--) N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP t+ 5 X R tv b+++@ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- "1. Resolved, that the several States composing, the United States of America; are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes,delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." -- Thomas Jefferson, _The Kentucky Resolutions_, 1798 ----end random quote of the moment----
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4 sid main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4 sid main contrib non-free # blackdown deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian sid non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian sid non-free # Christian Marillat deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main