Python 2.3.3 on FreeBSD 4.8

[Taylor Leese]

I am trying to compile Python 2.3.3 on FreeBSD 4.8 and
I am getting this compiling error. Anybody have any
ideas?

case $MAKEFLAGS in *-s*) CC='gcc' LDSHARED='cc
-shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py -q build;;
*) CC='gcc' LDSHARED='cc -shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g
-O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py
build;; esac
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./setup.py", line 1148, in ?
main()
File "./setup.py", line 1143, in main
scripts = ['Tools/scripts/pydoc',
'Tools/scripts/idle']
File
"/home/cleverli/public_html/Python-2.3.3/Lib/distutils/core.py",
line 123, in setup
dist.parse_config_files()
File
"/home/cleverli/public_html/Python-2.3.3/Lib/distutils/dist.py",
line 330, in parse_config_files
filenames = self.find_config_files()
File
"/home/cleverli/public_html/Python-2.3.3/Lib/distutils/dist.py",
line 293, in find_config_files
check_environ()
File
"/home/cleverli/public_html/Python-2.3.3/Lib/distutils/util.py",
line 155, in check_environ
import pwd
ImportError: No module named pwd
*** Error code 1

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[Lee Harr]

I am trying to compile Python 2.3.3 on FreeBSD 4.8 and
I am getting this compiling error. Anybody have any
ideas?

Are you building from ports? ie..

cd /usr/ports/lang/python
make

?