On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: > Thanks for your thoughtful replies. > > I don't use altinstall because using --prefix is sufficient to get a > locally built Python. > > Both your suggestions require root (or sudo) and changing the system > itself. Whereas I was hoping to just build a local Python and install > my own Tcl/Tk in its lib and site-packages (which I believe is what > happens on Windows?). > > Anyway, maybe that isn't possible. I will try installing my patched > Tcl/Tk system wide on an old machine and if that works I'll do it to > my main machine and rebuild my Pythons to use it.
You can try these: - set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /home/mark/opt/tcltk85/lib when running python, or - configure your python with LDFLAGS set to -Wl,-rpath=/home/mark/opt/tcltk85/lib Both of these are slightly smelly hacks, but might suffice for your needs. -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
