In case someone else reads these for information about a simliar problem....
It turns out, that I did not need to edit the setup.py script, I could just ignore the compile time INFO statements regarding Tk/Tcl libs and includes.. I did need to modify the Modules/Setup file however... But the final run-time trick was to define two environment variables... TK_LIBRARY=/opt/tk/lib/tk8.4, and TCL_LIBRARY=/opt/tcl/lib/tcl8.4 Now "make test", "./python Lib/test/test_tcl.py", and all my python 1.6 scripts seem to work. I don't know if this is the best solution, but it seems to work. "Richard Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm trying to compile python 2.4.1, on HPUX10.20, with support for tk and > tcl 8.4 (installed in /opt/tk and /opt/tcl). I assume this means I need to > compile the tkinter module too.. > > I was getting make errors, saying it couldn't find tcl/tk libs or headers... > so I changed the setup.py script, hard coding library and include paths for > tcl/tk, but it still didn't build the _tkinter module. So next I modified > the Modules/Setup file, uncommenting, and changing compiler arguments to > point to the correct lib and include paths. At least it built this time... > so I ran make test, and got the following error for test_tcl: > > TclError: Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories: > /opt/tcl8.4.4/lib/tk8.4 <etc .... the rest of the dirs listed are in my > home directory> > > On my system, /opt/tk is a link to /opt/tk8.4.4, therefore, the tk.tcl file > is really in /opt/tk/lib/tk8.4/tk.tcl, but why didn't it look there? > > I'm stumped. Did I really have to hack the setup.py and Setup files? Where > is it getting its paths from? Is my environment wrong, or do I need to > change some configure parameters? I'm hoping someone out there knows what > I'm doing wrong, or perhaps can point me in the right direction. Thanks > again > > Rich > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
