Hi, I'm trying to build an extension written in c on a system with the following characteristics:

OS: HP-UX 10.20 Python: v1.6 Distutils: v1.0 gcc: v2.95.2 with hp-ux ld (not gnu ld)

Python is built with gcc, and the problem is that gcc --shared doesn't work (ok, this is probably me messing up gcc). Python seems to be aware of this as it builds the shared modules using ld -b directly, shouldn't distutils do the same thing? It used to, I had no problem building this extension with python 1.5.2 and distutils 0.8.2.

Any hints greatly appreciated, Roy.

The Computer Center, University of Tromsø, N-9037 TROMSØ, Norway. phone:+47 77 64 41 07, fax:+47 77 64 41 00 Roy Dragseth, High Perfomance Computing System Administrator Direct call: +47 77 64 62 56. email: royd@cc.uit.no