./confgiure --enable-shared
make
fails on Solaris 9 with gcc 3.2.3

        gcc -shared -o libpython2.3.so
Modules/getbuildinfo.o
        Parser/acceler.o Parser/grammar1.o
Parser/listnode.o
        Parser/node.o Parser/parser.o Parser/parsetok.o
        Parser/bitset.o Parser/metagrammar.o
Parser/firstsets.o
        Parser/grammar.o Parser/pgen.o Parser/myreadline.o
        Parser/tokenizer.o Objects/abstract.o
Objects/boolobject.o
        Objects/bufferobject.o Objects/cellobject.o
        Objects/classobject.o Objects/cobject.o
        Objects/complexobject.o Objects/descrobject.o
        Objects/enumobject.o Objects/fileobject.o
        Objects/floatobject.o Objects/frameobject.o
        Objects/funcobject.o Objects/intobject.o
Objects/iterobject.o
        Objects/listobject.o Objects/longobject.o
Objects/dictobject.o
        Objects/methodobject.o Objects/moduleobject.o
Objects/object.o
        Objects/obmalloc.o Objects/rangeobject.o
Objects/sliceobject.o
        Objects/stringobject.o Objects/structseq.o
        Objects/tupleobject.o Objects/typeobject.o
        Objects/weakrefobject.o Objects/unicodeobject.o
        Objects/unicodectype.o Python/bltinmodule.o
        Python/exceptions.o Python/ceval.o Python/compile.o
        Python/codecs.o Python/errors.o Python/frozen.o
        Python/frozenmain.o Python/future.o
Python/getargs.o
        Python/getcompiler.o Python/getcopyright.o
Python/getmtime.o
        Python/getplatform.o Python/getversion.o
Python/graminit.o
        Python/import.o Python/importdl.o Python/marshal.o
        Python/modsupport.o Python/mystrtoul.o
Python/mysnprintf.o
        Python/pyfpe.o Python/pystate.o Python/pythonrun.o
        Python/structmember.o Python/symtable.o
Python/sysmodule.o
        Python/traceback.o Python/getopt.o
Python/dynload_shlib.o
        Python/thread.o Modules/config.o Modules/getpath.o
        Modules/main.o Modules/gcmodule.o 
Modules/threadmodule.o
        Modules/signalmodule.o  Modules/posixmodule.o
        Modules/errnomodule.o  Modules/_sre.o 
Modules/_codecsmodule.o
        Modules/zipimport.o  Modules/symtablemodule.o
        Modules/xxsubtype.o -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -ldl 
-lpthread  -lm;
        \
fi
ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first
setting taken
ln: libpython2.3.so and libpython2.3.so are identical
make: *** [libpython2.3.so] Error 2

running make again produces:
c++   -o python \
                Modules/python.o \
               
-Wl,-rpath,/home/faculty/dreed/pub/Python-2.3/lib
        -L. -lpython2.3 -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -ldl 
-lpthread   -lm
ld: fatal: option -dn and -P are incompatible
ld: fatal: Flags processing errors
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [python] Error 1