help building anaconda

["Kevin Williams" <kevin netkev com>]

I read the developer wiki page(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage1DevelopmentGuide) and there is a broken link to buildrequires and some assumptions not made for a newbie and so I'm stuck trying to figure out how to compile anaconda.  My intent is to test a code change that I intend to submit as a patch for a feature request.  So far I've set CVSROOT to 'CVSROOT=:
pserver:anonymous rhlinux redhat com:/usr/local/CVS' and checked out the anaconda module.  Then, before I changed anything, I attempted to compile with './py-compile *.py'.  But this results in several python syntax errors which are unexpected since I didn't change anything yet.  Most likely I am doing something wrong.  My system's version of python is: Python 
2.3.5 (#2, Oct 16 2006, 19:19:48)

Thanks for your help in advance,
-Kevin