Is it anything to do with the way I've compiled up Python by any chance? Anyone who's compiled up Python 1.5.2 under Solaris have any thoughts?
Have you enabled shared library support during python compilation? Check the Modules/Setup file in your Python directory and find a line whith the entry: *shared*
It should be uncommented.
Pavlos
Pavlos, many thanks for that piece of advice. However, after uncommenting the *shared* line, I'm getting *a lot* of failures on 'make test' with some (test_re for example) actually crashing. :( If anyone can point me at a site where I can get details on how to compile up Python 1.5.2 for Solaris I'd be way grateful - I don't really want to clutter this list. I've scoured www.python.org but nothing has come up really (and checked out section 3 of the FAQ). cheers tone. ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2