> > ! LIBS= -lnsl -ldl -lreadline -ltermcap -lieee -lpthread -lutil > > You probably want -lcrypt in there, too, just in case. No, I put *shared* at the earliest convenience in Setup (in fact there's one commented out that I enabled). I recommend everyone else to do the same. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)