Help compiling shared .so on Redhat

[Michael Hudson]

Tom <bondpaper at earthlink.net> writes:

> I'm attempting to install Python 1.5 from a source tarball, 

1.5?  Why?

> and I need to compile into a shared library (.so instead of, or in
> addition to, the .a file produced by default). I've looked through
> the configure script and Makefile, and discovered that there are
> variables containing the correct compile options (-fpic, -shared),
> but I have been unable to figure out how to get the configure/make
> process to use them.

I think the debain project has patches to let you do this -- you might
want to poke around old releases to see what you can find.

Cheers,
M.

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