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The snake farm is slowly getting into better shape.  
There are still several problems, though.

  1)    The latest results page doesn't always show the most recent
        build for each architecture.  For example, right now the most
        recent build for AIX is on 4/4, then most recent builds for
        other boxes are the 10th.  Could we change the script which
        produces the page to be more current?  The oldest build goes
        back to Jan 20th.  That doesn't seem too useful.

  2)    Solaris 8 test_time fails.  This is a problem I've been working
        on which deals with tzset.  <http://python.org/sf/706707>

  3)    AIX fails to link.  This works for me when built manually.
        So there must be some difference in the environment.  The
        problem is that -lpthread is not present when linking.
        I'll try to look into this.  If I have write privileges
        to the build area, I should be able to fix the problem.

  4)    On one of the alpha's (aristocat), all the DB tests fail:
                architecture lacks fast mutexes: 
                        applications cannot be threaded
        I'm guessing this is a kernel/glibc/configure issue.  
        I haven't looked into this, but will eventually get around
        to it.  The other alpha passes all the tests I believe.

  5)    Many roxen.com builds failing.  These all seem to be due
        to compiler issues.

  6)    HP-UX--unknown, there isn't a current entry on the page.

I'll keep working on 2, 3, and 4.

Neal