[Image-SIG] TkImaging on SGI?

[Georg Mischler]

> > Since some of the already installed libraries were compiled
> > that way, I had to use the -o32 option. Displaying images
> > with the Tk demos works fine, and PIL alone also doesn't
> > make any problems. The system is an O2 with irix 6.5 (I think
> > Python and Tk were compiled with an older OS version).
> >
> > Any suggestions where to look for fixing the problem?
> 
> if you've change the Imaging.h structure, you may
> have to rebuild _tkinter (depending on where you've
> placed the tkImage.c module).  If they doesn't match,
> getting a segmentation violation down in tkImage is
> quite likely.

This might explain some of the earlier funny errors I had,
which just mangled the images without dumping.
In this case here, the ImagingInstance is in its original
state (hmmm... except for the type string set to char[8]). 

Another post suggested to compile with -n32 consistently,
which the friendly sysop will make possible as reccommended.

Thinking of it: what happens when _tkinter isn't set up
for _imaging at all (is this still necessary?)?  Could
this cause a dump as well, or would it refuse to work
right away? I don't have root access to those systems,
so I haven't installed Python myself.

In any case, I think I hvae now three more places to look
for the source of the problem, one of which may well solve it.


Thanks so far!

-schorsch

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