Hi, In my attempt to install lxml on my Powerbook, I started out using the latest libxml2 and libxslt versions - 2.2.19 and 1.1.14 respectively. Compiling lxml did seem to work, however, the tests wouldn't run and crash with segfaults. Since it was confirmed that lxml did actually compile and run using these versions of libxml2 and libxslt on Linux, I initially thought it was me doing something wrong, either in installing lxml prerequisites or lxml itself. After wasting some more hours trying :) it finally occured to me to actually try the libxml2 and libxslt versions as advertised in the lxml installation instructions: 2.2.16 and 1.1.12. Compiling then worked just fine and indeed the lxml tests run without problems too! I guess, for lxml to work with latest libxml2 and libxslt on OS X some work needs to be done? Some more details: I'm using OS X 10.3.9, tried with both Python2.3 from Fink 'unstable' and a 'manually' installed Python2.3. In both cases I 'manually' installed libxml2 and libxslt (since Fink's libxml2/libxslt do not include the Python bindings). If I can be somehow of any help in debugging this, or if I need to provide more details, I'm glad to! kind regards, jw -- Jan-Wijbrand Kolman jw@infrae.com