Segfault when compiling python 2.3.7

[Boris de Laage]

./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.3 && make :

[.. lot of output ..]

case $MAKEFLAGS in \
 *-s*) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread -shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py -q build;; \
 *) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread -shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py build;; \
 esac
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./python terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0x40172558]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x40170680]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x40170de8]
./python(PySys_SetArgv+0x150)[0x80deeb0]
./python(Py_Main+0x324)[0x8056864]
./python(main+0x22)[0x8056512]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0x4008e685]
./python[0x8056451]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08119000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 40943621 /home/boris/Zope/archives/Python-2.3.7/python
08119000-0811a000 r--p 000d0000 08:06 40943621 /home/boris/Zope/archives/Python-2.3.7/python
0811a000-08138000 rw-p 000d1000 08:06 40943621 /home/boris/Zope/archives/Python-2.3.7/python
08138000-0813b000 rw-p 08138000 00:00 0
08ce5000-08d54000 rw-p 08ce5000 00:00 0 [heap]
40000000-4001a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 161619 /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
4001a000-4001b000 r-xp 4001a000 00:00 0 [vdso]
4001b000-4001c000 r--p 0001a000 08:01 161619 /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
4001c000-4001d000 rw-p 0001b000 08:01 161619 /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
4001d000-4001f000 rw-p 4001d000 00:00 0
4001f000-40026000 r--s 00000000 08:01 274963 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
40030000-40045000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 178490 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.8.90.so
40045000-40046000 r--p 00014000 08:01 178490 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.8.90.so
40046000-40047000 rw-p 00015000 08:01 178490 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.8.90.so
40047000-40049000 rw-p 40047000 00:00 0
40049000-4004b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 178470 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.8.90.so
4004b000-4004c000 r--p 00001000 08:01 178470 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.8.90.so
4004c000-4004d000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 178470 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.8.90.so
4004d000-4004f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 178498 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.8.90.so
4004f000-40050000 r--p 00001000 08:01 178498 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.8.90.so
40050000-40051000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 178498 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.8.90.so
40051000-40075000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 178472 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.8.90.so
40075000-40076000 r--p 00023000 08:01 178472 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.8.90.so
40076000-40077000 rw-p 00024000 08:01 178472 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.8.90.so
40077000-40078000 rw-p 40077000 00:00 0
40078000-401d0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 178464 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.8.90.so
401d0000-401d2000 r--p 00158000 08:01 178464 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.8.90.so
401d2000-401d3000 rw-p 0015a000 08:01 178464 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.8.90.so
401d3000-4031c000 rw-p 401d3000 00:00 0
4031c000-4035b000 r--p 00000000 08:01 412887 /usr/lib/locale/fr_FR.utf8/LC_CTYPE
4036c000-40379000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 161662 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
40379000-4037a000 r--p 0000c000 08:01 161662 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
4037a000-4037b000 rw-p 0000d000 08:01 161662 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
bfed5000-bfeea000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
Aborted
make: *** [sharedmods] Erreur 134

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gcc 4:4.3.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gcc-defaults
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686