[mod_python] cannot compile mod_python on 64bit AMD processor

2008/7/24 Alec Matusis <matusis at yahoo.com>:
> I think I found an answer to my own question.
>
> On AMD x86_64, when I am linking a static library into a shared library,
> position-dependent code in a shared library is not supported.
>
> So I recompiled python with --enable-shared option, so that there is no
> static library libpython2.4.a at all, and it worked.
>
>
>
> I wonder if --enable-shared option causes any performance loss?

In the grand scheme of things, no.

Graham