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Well, this gets even stranger.  I am not running a debug
version of python as far as I can tell.

I built 2.4.1 in a fresh directory by:
./configure --prefix=/blah
make
make test
make install

The gcmodule was echo'd as being built this way:
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o
Modules/gcmodule.o Modules/gcmodule.c

I am leaning toward psyco as being the culprit based on your
suggestions since it is the only one that has extra C libraries.

I'm running the case with Tkinter, pyro, and psyco all not
being imported.

Thanks again,
Mark