In article <199805121512.RAA27042@saruman.ics.muni.cz>,
Jaromir Dolecek  <dolecek@ics.muni.cz> wrote:
> At least two packages (python, py-Numeric) and still-not-commited
> py-readline, py-Tk & py-readline explicitly list alpha, mips
> & powerpc as architectures where dynamic loading doesn't work.

I took that from the Perl package, which had the same thing. It sounded
wrong (what about VAX, for example?), but when I asked I was told it was
correct. <shrug>