Guido> I'm curious if perhaps Apple's loader (which started this) Guido> interprets -L as meaning both -L and -R in traditional Unix? Damned if I could tell by reading the ld(1) manpage. The change I checked in to unixccompiler.py returns -L only because I figured "-L<dir>" would be innocuous, not because I expected it to have "-R<dir>" semantics. I'll ask around on the Pythonmac-SIG. Skip