[Python-Dev] HP-UX clean-up

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Tue Jan 6 19:40:31 EST 2004


Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> [MvL]
>> After setup.py fails to build one extension module, it *should*
>> continue with the next one. Are you sure _tkinter.sl was not
>> build???
>
> setup.py skips some modules if the required .h files cannot be found.
> If you never installed Tcl/Tk, it will skip _tkinter.c silently.

I have a patch to setup.py in the queue for review (#850977). This handles
a problem on Free/OpenBSD where the tk/tcl headers are named in an unusual
way.  You may have a problem as simple as that.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=850977&group_id=5470&atid=305470

-- 
KBK



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