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Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer.

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@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ Linux: On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run
to fail as well, so their removal is a good idea regardless of
how you configure python.
More recently, a problem with threads and fork() was tracked
down to a bug in the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5;
glibc version 2.0.7 solves the problem. This causes the
popen2 test to fail; problem and solution reported by Pablo
Bleyer.
Also under RedHat Linux 5.0, the crypt module now needs the
-lcrypt option. Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or
comment out the crypt module in the same file.