As suggested by Dmitry Levin and included in Fedora Core releases, use gcc instead of ld to link shared objects. Fedora rpm notes refer to this fixing a plugin problem, but does not offer specifics. But in any event, 'gcc -dumpspecs' does show gcc will pass a number of parameters which in theory it thinks are better. Compile tested both with and without NO_SHARED_LIBS. Closes bug #454. Phil