[Chicago] Tcl/Tk location

[Chad Homan]

Due to the nature of the gig. I do not believe recompiling is an option.
So I am
definitely looking for a runtime option.  Any other ideas?

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On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I find myself  in a strange situation
> >
> > With great misfortune, I am running on Sol10 update11.  This system is
> > natively
> > using python 2.6.4 and tcl/tk 8.3.  I am trying to write a ttk widget,
> which
> > is exploding
> > because it cannot find a package "tile", which to my understanding is in
> > tcl/tk 8.5.
> >
> > I pulled 8.5 from sunfreeware.com  need to tell python to use a
> different
> > Tcl/Tk version
> > to gain access to "tile".  All packages installed fine to  /usr/local,
> which
> > is great because
> > it is not "stomping" on the native binaries.
> >
> > My question is hoe do I tell python/Tkinter to use the new locations?
>
> I'm not aware of this being something you can do at runtime. You would
> probably have to rebuild Python from source and point it to your
> tcl/tk build via LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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