newbie needs help building Python 2.5 for Fedora Core 6

Hello, and please be gentle... I'm trying to build Python 2.5 on my Fedora Core 6 installation. I think I've resolved most of my problems, but make test reports an error for test_socket.py, shown below. I suppose my FC6 installation is missing something, but I have no idea what. Any ideas,

Re: newbie needs help building Python 2.5 for Fedora Core 6

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], bobmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, and please be gentle... I'm trying to build Python 2.5 on my Fedora Core 6 installation. I think I've resolved most of my problems, but make test reports an error for test_socket.py, shown below. I suppose my FC6

Re: newbie needs help building Python 2.5 for Fedora Core 6

WOW. I'm gobsmacked... On Feb 24, 6:13 pm, Tony Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try it from the python command line. This is what happens when I try it Okay, that was interesting... Apparently there's a subtlety of /etc/hosts that affects this! Originally it had this line: 127.0.0.1