Tkinter configuration on Digital Unix

[Fuffly]

Frederic Giacometti <frederic.giacometti at arakne.com> writes:

> I'm trying to run Tkinter on Digital Unix 4.0e, and I'm getting the
> following problem:

I don't use OSF^WDigit^WCompa^WTru64 With Cheese[tm], but just went
through the identical problems on a Linux system.

> - when building _tkinter.so with the the tcl and tk libs provided with
> DU 4.0 (unknown version?): --> unsatisfied symbol Tcl_free

Yup, got this too using Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1.  Commenting out the Tcl_free
made it compile, but the module still wouldn't actually work.

> - when build _tkinter.so with tck8.1 and tk8.1 libs, that compiled from
> the sources (tcl and tk tests are OK), I'm getting this:
> --------------------------
> TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
{four blank lines, and I'll bet the first line was 4 spaces, grrr.}
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

Got identical results with 8.1.  No combination of library environment
vars or Tcl/Tk configure/compile/install/curse contortions would
convince it otherwise.  Especially frustrating is that wish8.1 and
tclsh8.1 worked just fine, and tkinter borrows their code almost
verbatim. I'm sure there's some small edit somewhere that will make it
all magically work, but I'm not that patient.

All is not lost, however; I then installed Tcl/Tk 8.0.5 (since the
stock Setup file was originally looking for 8.0, so *someone* must
have been able to make it run!) and eveything works just dandy now.
(BTW idle is a neat toy.)  Version 8.0.5 is still available, under
<URL:ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/tcl8_0/>

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