Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index a3ead13..4f5ea8d 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@
 Dan Parisien
 Harri Pasanen
 Randy Pausch
+Ondrej Palkovsky
 Marcel van der Peijl
 Samuele Pedroni
 Steven Pemberton
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2275676..67dedd1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
 
 Build
 
+- On Unix, a shared libpython2.3.so can be created with --enable-shared.
+
 - References to the CACHE_HASH and INTERN_STRINGS preprocessor symbols
   were eliminated.  They were always defined, and the internal features
   they enabled stopped being experimental long ago.