problems trying to build python 2.6 as a shared library

[Chris Withers]

Marco Nawijn wrote:
>     2. Add path to dynamic linker configuration file. This typically
> is in '/etc/ld.so.conf'. See man page for ld for more information.

Yes, this was it.
Don't forget to run ldconfig after you've changed /etc/ld.so.conf

It's frustrating how the contents of this file vary from distro to 
distro, particularly w.r.t. /usr/local/lib :-(

Chris

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