compiling python

[Mag Gam]

At my university we are trying to compile python with --enable-shared
however when I do a make many things fail. Is it a good idea to
compile python with shared libraries? It seems mod-python needs it
this way.

TIA

 

[Stefan Behnel]

At my university we are trying to compile python with --enable-shared

Is there a reason why you need to compile the CPython interpreter yourself?

however when I do a make many things fail. Is it a good idea to
compile python with shared libraries?

Perfectly fine, Linux distros do that by default, for example.

"many things fail" is not a very detailed problem description, though.
Could you state more exactly what you do and provide the error messages
that you see?

Stefan