It turns out this issue had already been reported, at:
http://bugs.python.org/issue4366
The initial (unaccepted) patch in there did the same thing I did in my source tree to make it work, but it was clearly the wrong thing (it had the “wrong thing” smell from the start, really). After a bunch of digging, the reality is [...]
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Ok, really that should be 2.6.4 and 2.7.1a1, but I’d imagine this problem might exist for more than just those versions. I haven’t tried to build 3.x.
I don’t quite know the exact steps that produce this problem (maybe any/all configure option?), but if you do:
./configure –enable-shared
as is my wont to do, Python happily builds [...]
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