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Description of problem:
when building python 2.1.1 it breaks with the error "LONG_BIT definition
appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)."
afaik I have the latest glibc gcc rpms for 7.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.down load from python.org Python-2.1.1.tgz 
2.uncompress
3. ./configure
4. ./make
	

Actual Results:  make test
gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I./Include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o
Modules/pyt
hon.o Modules/python.c
In file included from Include/Python.h:54,
                 from Modules/python.c:3:
Include/pyport.h:422:2: #error "LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for
platform (bad gcc
/glibc config?)."
make: *** [Modules/python.o] Error 1

Additional info:

other people have reported problems with 2.1 on RH7.0 on comp.lang.python