Python 3.1.1 with --enable-shared: won't create any extensions

Synopsis: Building Python 3.1 on RHEL 5.3 64-bit with the -enable-shared option will not compile all extensions. The "normal" structure works great without problems.

Please note that this question can blur the line between programming and system administration. However, I believe that since it deals directly with OS and programming issues, I would cross-post it on both StackOverflow and ServerFault. Also on Python 3.1.1 with --enable-shared: won't create any extensions . Thank!

Problem:

Building Python 3.1 on RHEL 5.3 64 bit with --enable-shared

cannot compile all extensions. The "normal" structure works great without problems.

I can build python 3.1 just fine, but when built as a shared library it throws a lot of warnings (see below) and refuses to build any of the modules based on c

. Despite this glitch, I can still build mod_wsgi 3.0c5 against it and run it under apache. Needless to say, Python's functionality has been greatly reduced ...

It is interesting to note that Python 3.2a0 (from svn) compiles fine with -enable-shared, and mod_wsgi compiles fine against it. But when starting apache, I get:

Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_wsgi.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_wsgi.so: undefined symbol: PyCObject_FromVoidPtr

The project it is for is a long term project, so I'm fine with alpha quality software if needed. Here are some details about the problem.

Leading:

• Dell PowerEdge
• Intel Xenon
• RHEL 5.3 64bit
• Nothing special "

Build:

• Python 3.1.1 source distribution
• Works fine with ./configure
  
  
• Doesn't work with ./configure --enable-shared
  
  

( export CFLAGS="-fPIC"

done)

make a conclusion

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -fPIC -DPy_BUILD_CORE -c ./Modules/_weakref.c -o Modules/_weakref.o

building 'bz2' extension gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I./Include -I/usr/local/include -IInclude -I/home/build/RPMBUILD/BUILD/Python-3.1.1 -c /home/build/RPMBUILD/BUILD/Python-3.1.1/Modules/bz2module.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.1/home/build/RPMBUILD/BUILD/Python-3.1.1/Modules/bz2module.o gcc -pthread -shared -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.1/home/build/RPMBUILD/BUILD/Python-3.1.1/Modules/bz2module.o -L/usr/local/lib -L. -lbz2 -lpython3.1 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.1/bz2.so /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpython3.1.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against 'a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Failed to build these modules:
_bisect            _codecs_cn         _codecs_hk
_codecs_iso2022    _codecs_jp         _codecs_kr
_codecs_tw         _collections       _csv
_ctypes            _ctypes_test       _curses
_curses_panel      _dbm               _elementtree
_gdbm              _hashlib           _heapq
_json              _lsprof            _multibytecodec
_multiprocessing   _pickle            _random
_socket            _sqlite3           _ssl
_struct            _testcapi          array
atexit             audioop            binascii
bz2                cmath              crypt
datetime           fcntl              grp
itertools          math               mmap
nis                operator           ossaudiodev
parser             pyexpat            readline
resource           select             spwd
syslog             termios            time
unicodedata        zlib