Hi Stefen,

I looked at http://bugs.python.org/issue941346 and I believe it might help my case, but, the changes made against that issue  are not clear to me.

It appears that for Python 2.7, the changes were made in the following 5 files

1. configure.in
2. Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
3. Makefile.pre.in
4. Modules/ld_so_aix.in
5. Modules/ld_so_aix

The changes done in the file 5 are not clear to me....the source code that I downloaded from python.org still does not contain those changes. I am not sure if the changes were accepted to be in the release version but if someone could send me the changes then I am willing to try those out on my AIX Machine in question and share the results.

Please guide.