Compiling to include Tkinter/IDLE: HOWTO?

[Kirby Urner]

Postscript:

I figured this out.  Mandrake install CDs didn't bother to install
all the X11R6 include files by default, so Xlib.h which simply 
absent from my system.  I used the RPM manager to 
locate the missing stuff, did a fresh untar of Python2.2,
and reran everything from the beginning.  Also grabbed the
idle stuff out of Tools and copied it to /site-packages.  
All is well.

Kirby


Kirby Urner <urner at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

>
>I downloaded Python 2.2a2 and did a ./configure ./make in Linux 
>(Mandrake 8.0 distro).  Errors had to do with not finding X11/X11.h
>and therefore not installing _tkinter.  In the /usr/local/lib/python2.2 
>directory, I also don't find IDLE (a Tk app).  I'm able to use the
>resulting Python in terminal shell mode no prob.
>
>Question:  what do I need to do to on my platform to compile a 
>new Python with Tkinter usable, and IDLE as well?  When I install
>the RPM from the distro, I get Python 2.0 with working IDLE, and
>I'd like to have a similar setup for Python 2.2.
>
>Kirby
>Please cc: urnerk at qwest.net
>