I hit another gotcha building shared on Ubuntu. I thought I had setuptools installed. When I built JCC, I got no error message about patch 43, and the config.py said "shared". But the library that got built was "libjcc.a", not "libjcc.so".
Turns out that the Ubuntu package "python-setuptools" isn't really setuptools; it's this: Description: Python Distutils Enhancements (setuptools compatibility) Extensions to the python-distutils for large or complex distributions. . Package providing compatibility with old setuptools (0.6c9). Homepage: http://packages.python.org/distribute Python-Version: 2.6 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug I had to download setuptools-0.6c11 from PyPI and install it manually to get things to work. Bill
