Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis:
> Hello Everyone.
>
> I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at "checking for working
> mkstemp....."  for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64.
>
> Thanks in Advanced,
> Ninus.

I've encountered the same and didn't know how to solve it. I found out that 
mkstemp was some standard C function so I remerged glibc, but that didn't do 
the trick. Eventuella I restarted my installation. It as i686 with 32 bit 
though. Did you change CHOST maybe? 
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