In article <nad-304e10.20284516042...@news.gmane.org>, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote:
> In article <dd982bd4-02ab-4395-afee-cd3d0eeb7...@u.washington.edu>, > Russell Owen <ro...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works, > > except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my > > ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is in /Library/Frameworks where one would > > expect). > > > > I just built python from source and that version does use ActiveState > > 8.4.19. > > > > I wish I knew what's going on. Not being able to use the binary > > distros is a bit of a pain. > > You're right, the tkinter included with the 2.6.2 installer is not > linked properly: > > Is: > $ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6 > $ cd lib/python2.6/lib-dynload > $ otool -L _tkinter.so > _tkinter.so: > /System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.4/Tcl > (compatibility version 8.4.0, current version 8.4.0) > /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Tk > (compatibility version 8.4.0, current version 8.4.0) > /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib [...] > > should be: > _tkinter.so: > /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.4/Tcl (compatibility > version 8.4.0, current version 8.4.19) > /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Tk (compatibility > version 8.4.0, current version 8.4.19) > /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib [...] Just for the record, when I built Python 2.6 from source I got the latter output (the desired result). If someone can point me to instructions I'm willing to try to make a binary installer and make it available (though I'd much prefer to debug the standard installer). -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
