Mag Gam wrote: > At my university we are trying to compile python with --enable-shared
Is there a reason why you need to compile the CPython interpreter yourself? > however when I do a make many things fail. Is it a good idea to > compile python with shared libraries? Perfectly fine, Linux distros do that by default, for example. "many things fail" is not a very detailed problem description, though. Could you state more exactly what you do and provide the error messages that you see? Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list