Eric Brunel wrote: > Jeffrey Barish wrote: > [snip] >> OK, I downloaded tcl8.4.8 and tk8.4.8. They are now installed. Back >> to >> python2.4 make. It now bombs at: >> >> gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/_tkinter.o >> build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/tkappinit.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 >> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lX11 -o >> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/_tkinter.so >> *** WARNING: renaming "_tkinter" since importing it failed: >> libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >> directory running build_scripts >> >> Here's what I don't get: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/Python-2.4# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libtk8.4.so >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 893866 2004-12-02 >> 15:28 /usr/local/lib/libtk8.4.so >> >> The library is there but gcc claims that it isn't. Any suggestions? > > Is /usr/local/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable? It > needs to be in the compiler options for the compilation phase, but > then you have to put it in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be able to import the > module. > > HTH
That was the problem. Thanks for the help. -- Jeffrey Barish -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
