diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 06b150a0e..357fc758f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 sudo: required
 language: python
 python:
-  - 2.6
   - 2.7
   - 3.2
   - 3.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c743f0260..05ae35906 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from distutils.spawn import find_executable
 from distutils import log
 from platform import architecture
-from subprocess import Popen, CalledProcessError, PIPE, check_call
+from subprocess import Popen, CalledProcessError, PIPE, check_call, check_output
 from glob import glob
 import fnmatch
 import sys
@@ -153,7 +153,13 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
 
             # Check if --enable-shared was set when Python was built
             enable_shared = get_config_var("Py_ENABLE_SHARED")
-            if enable_shared == 0:
+            if enable_shared:
+                # Double-check if libpython is linked dynamically with python
+                lddout = check_output(["ldd", sys.executable])
+                if b'libpython' not in lddout:
+                    enable_shared = False
+
+            if not enable_shared:
                 defines.append("PYTHON_WITHOUT_ENABLE_SHARED")
 
         if hasattr(sys, "abiflags"):