Python 2.6.5's SSL Module fails to build on Ubuntu 11.10+

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To Reproduce

1. Install pythonbrew on Ubuntu 11.10 or later (in my case 12.04).
2. Build Python 2.6.5 with: pythonbrew install 2.6.5

Expected Result

1. Python 2.6.5 should be built.
2. Python 2.6.5 should include SSL support.

Actual Result

1. Python 2.6.5 is built.
2. Python 2.6.5 does not include SSL support.

Notes

This is likely due to Ubuntu 11.10 and later excluding SSL2 support from the OpenSSL package per this discussion on stackoverflow.

Test

To test this bug, run the Python 2.6.5 SSL Unit Test Suite: Python-2.6.5/Lib/test/test_ssl.py or lib/python2.6/test/test_ssl.py.

Test results before fix

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gba/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/test/test_ssl.py", line 1203, in <module>
    test_main()
  File "/home/gba/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/test/test_ssl.py", line 1170, in test_main
    raise test_support.TestSkipped("No SSL support")
test.test_support.TestSkipped: No SSL support

Test results after fix

testCrucialConstants (__main__.BasicTests) ... ok
testDERtoPEM (__main__.BasicTests) ... ok
testParseCert (__main__.BasicTests) ... 
{'notAfter': 'Feb 16 16:54:50 2013 GMT',
 'subject': ((('countryName', u'US'),),
             (('stateOrProvinceName', u'Delaware'),),
             (('localityName', u'Wilmington'),),
             (('organizationName', u'Python Software Foundation'),),
             (('organizationalUnitName', u'SSL'),),
             (('commonName', u'somemachine.python.org'),))}
ok
testRAND (__main__.BasicTests) ... 
 RAND_status is 1 (sufficient randomness)
ok
testSSLconnect (__main__.BasicTests) ... ok

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 5 tests in 0.011s

OK

Build Log

building '_ssl' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I. -I/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/./Include -I/home/gba/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.6.5/include -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/local/include -I/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Include -I/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5 -c /home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.o
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c: In function ‘newPySSLObject’:
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c:304:3: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘SSLv2_method’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c:304:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘SSL_CTX_new’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:1659:10: note: expected ‘const struct SSL_METHOD *’ but argument is of type ‘int’
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c: In function ‘_get_peer_alt_names’:
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c:690:15: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c: In function ‘PySSL_cipher’:
/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.c:1026:10: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/home/gba/.pythonbrew/build/Python-2.6.5/Modules/_ssl.o -L/home/gba/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.6.5/lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/local/lib -lssl -lcrypto -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/_ssl.so
*** WARNING: renaming "_ssl" since importing it failed: build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/_ssl.so: undefined symbol: SSLv2_method