I would like to point you to this post readed some days ago got from planet python I search inside this group but I didn't find anything related (am I wrong?) anyway here it is, http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-cant-build-python-using-llvm.html I've more or less the same questions reported in the blog -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list