Alex wrote: > Found the problem and resolution: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27211 It was a problem with GCC , specific compiler options, and glibc, that's what I deduced from that forum. Scary. My linux box has GCC 3.2.2 and glibc 2.3.1, am I safe? The installed python works fine (Mandrake 9.1 RPM). --Irmen