I'm trying to build a non-framework python on MacOS X 10.5 using a custom tcl/tk that lives in an arbitrary directory. (For complicated reasons we don't want the system tcl/tk). It is easy to build an X11 tcl/tk this way (and we are content with X11) so I did that.
Unfortunately I can't seem to build Python in such a way that it sees this tcl/tk. The only documented way to do this I found was to edit Modules/Setup or Setup.local, so I did the following: $ /configure --prefix=/Users/rowen/TestBuild/pythonroot/ --disable-framework Edit Modules/Setup.local to add this text (based on comments in Modules/Setup): _tkinter _tkinter.c tkappinit.c -DWITH_APPINIT \ -L/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/lib \ -I/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/include \ -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 \ -I/usr/X11R6/include \ -L/usr/X11R6/lib \ -lX11 $ make $ make install This builds, but the resulting python is missing the _tkinter library. I tried setting CFLAGS: $ export CFLAGS="-I/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/include -L/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/bin" before running configure, but that didn't help. So...any advice? Any obvious mistake? (I did double-check each path in the text I added to Setup.local) Is there some way to convince configure to use my tcl/tk (that would potentially be simpler than editing Modules/Setup.local). -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
