[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are compiling python and you want to build idle/tkinter, you > need to have the development packages for tcl and tk. The python build > scripts will only build tkinter should they find the libraries > (libtk8.4.so and libtcl8.4.so) and the header files (tk.h and tcl.h). > If you don't have the development packages installed, you most likely > do not have the header files. > > If you install the development packages and recompile, test by > importing _tkinter. If that is successful, idle should run just fine. >
Thanks. After installing new versions of Tcl/Tk, python compilation did work. What is surprising is that although Python is bundled with most (all?) Linux distros, Idle does not work on most??? -- Hrvoje -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
