The libsocket/libnsl problem is specific to IRIX 4. Confirmed by Tim Rice.

e1172588 · Martin v. Löwis · 74416af9 · e1172588 · e1172588
Commit e1172588 authored Nov 13, 2002 by Martin v. Löwis
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--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 1.368 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 1.369 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for python 2.3.
 #
@@ -9717,7 +9717,7 @@ rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext;;
 esac

 # Most SVR4 platforms (e.g. Solaris) need -lsocket and -lnsl.
-# However on SGI IRIX, these exist but are broken.
+# However on SGI IRIX 4, these exist but are broken.
 # BeOS' sockets are stashed in libnet.
 case "$ac_sys_system" in
 IRIX*) ;;

--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ case "$ac_sys_system" in
 esac

 # Most SVR4 platforms (e.g. Solaris) need -lsocket and -lnsl.
-# However on SGI IRIX, these exist but are broken.
+# However on SGI IRIX 4, these exist but are broken.
 # BeOS' sockets are stashed in libnet.
 case "$ac_sys_system" in
 IRIX*) ;;