I am compiling 2.5 on Solaris 10 SPARC. I edited Modules/Setup to try and enable tkinter. ranlib claims that it cannot find libtk8.4.so even though I have a -L option pointing to it.
ranlib libpython2.5.a /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -o python \ Modules/python.o \ libpython2.5.a -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -ldl -L/ opt/csw/lib -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -L/usr/openwin/lib -lX11 -L/home/ jonsoons/lib -lz -lm case $MAKEFLAGS in \ *-s*) CC='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc' LDSHARED='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc - shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./ python -E ./setup.py -q build;; \ *) CC='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc' LDSHARED='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -shared' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./ setup.py build;; \ esac ld.so.1: python: fatal: libtk8.4.so: open failed: No such file or directory Killed make: *** [sharedmods] Error 137 mis /home/jonsoons/Python-2.5.4 # glocate libtk8.4.so /opt/csw/lib/libtk8.4.so mis /home/jonsoons/Python-2.5.4 # file /opt/csw/lib/libtk8.4.so /opt/csw/lib/libtk8.4.so: ELF 32-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped mis /home/jonsoons/Python-2.5.4 # Did I screw up Modules/Setup? Thanks jon soons -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list