diff -up festival/speech_tools/config/compilers/gcc_defaults.mak.no-shared-data festival/speech_tools/config/compilers/gcc_defaults.mak
--- festival/speech_tools/config/compilers/gcc_defaults.mak.no-shared-data	2008-02-22 13:45:50.000000000 -0500
+++ festival/speech_tools/config/compilers/gcc_defaults.mak	2008-02-22 13:46:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ PROFILE_gprof_CCFLAGS   = -pg
 PROFILE_gprof_CXXFLAGS  = -pg
 PROFILE_gprof_LINKFLAGS = -pg
 
-SHARED_CCFLAGS  = -fPIC -fno-shared-data
-SHARED_CXXFLAGS  = -fPIC -fno-shared-data
-SHARED_LINKFLAGS = -fno-shared-data
+SHARED_CCFLAGS  = -fPIC 
+SHARED_CXXFLAGS  = -fPIC 
+SHARED_LINKFLAGS = 
 
 ifndef GCC_MAKE_SHARED_LIB
-    MAKE_SHARED_LIB = $(CXX) -shared -fno-shared-data -o XXX -Wl,-soname,YYY
+    MAKE_SHARED_LIB = $(CXX) -shared -o XXX -Wl,-soname,YYY
 else
     MAKE_SHARED_LIB = $(GCC_MAKE_SHARED_LIB)
 endif