John> Was libncurses.a compiled with -fpic (or -fPIC, if necessary)?
John> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013510.html When built shared the source was compiled with -fPIC. -fPIC is not used when not built shared. I forced that in a non-shared build. It still gave me the undefined acs32map error. I tried adding either termlib or termcap to the link libraries, as they both provide that symbol: bash-2.03$ nm -p /usr/lib/libtermcap. libtermcap.a libtermcap.so libtermcap.so.1 bash-2.03$ nm -p /usr/lib/libtermcap.so | egrep acs32map 0000245332 B acs32map bash-2.03$ nm -p /usr/lib/libtermcap.a | egrep acs32map 0000000004 D acs32map 0000000000 U acs32map 0000000000 U acs32map 0000000000 U acs32map 0000000000 U acs32map 0000000000 U acs32map I got all sorts of warnings about various symbols having differing sizes: ld: warning: symbol `acs_map' has differing sizes: (file /opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_acs.o) value=0x200; file /usr/ccs/lib/libtermcap.so value=0x4); /opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_acs.o) definition taken ld: warning: symbol `numnames' has differing sizes: (file /opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(names.o) value=0xa0; file /usr/ccs/lib/libtermcap.so value=0x88); /opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(names.o) definition taken ... The link succeeded when I added termcap and the generated _curses and _curses_panel modules import successfully. The fact that both modules appear to refer to /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1 now: $ ldd build/lib.solaris-2.8-i86pc-2.4/_curses.so libcurses.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 => /opt/app/nonc++/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1 libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 $ ldd build/lib.solaris-2.8-i86pc-2.4/_curses_panel.so libcurses.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 => /opt/app/nonc++/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1 libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 bothers me since I explicitly asked to get the version I had installed and (based on the warnings above) it appears to have retrieved many symbols from that version. Also, running the unit test seems to hang. It certainly ties up the xterm. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list