[issue42603] Tkinter: pkg-config is not used to get location of tcl and tk headers/libraries

[Manolis Stamatogiannakis]

New submission from Manolis Stamatogiannakis <mstamat at gmail.com>:

This is indirectly related to 42541: If pkg-config settings are honoured, it is made easier to compile Python against a modern version of TCL/TK.

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components: Tkinter
messages: 382756
nosy: m000
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tkinter: pkg-config is not used to get location of tcl and tk headers/libraries
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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