I just noticed this message when running make test: test test_dbm skipped -- /home/skip/src/python/dist/src/build/build/lib.linux-i686-2.1/dbm.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey I'm running a vanilla Mandrake 8.0 system. Unfortunately, I can't check libc.so or /usr/lib/libgdbm.so because the Mandrake folks saw fit to strip them... Anybody else seen this? Skip