On 29/01/2006, at 7:00 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Again: What matters is what ends up in the source distribution, > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4/Python-2.4.tgz No really that is wrong. What matters is what is in the Python executables, but you don't want to know that. So I will bow out of the discussion. Cheers Bill PS Linking with GNU libreadline really is a problem.