can't get tkinter to work with 2.1 / Solaris

[John Klassa]

Try as I might, I can't make tkinter happy.  I'm doing:

	make distclean
	./configure --prefix=/users/klassa/local --enable-gcc \
		--libdir=/users/klassa/local/lib \
		--includedir=/users/klassa/local/include
	make
	make install
	make install libinstall

I just downloaded Tcl 8.3 and installed it into the /users/klassa/local
tree.  It's there. :-)  To wit:

	% cd /users/klassa/local/lib
	% ls -alF libt*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 klassa   eng        707476 Aug 31  1999 libtcl8.2.so*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 klassa   eng        709428 Jun  4 12:35 libtcl8.3.so*
-rw-r--r--   1 klassa   eng          2012 Aug 31  1999 libtclstub8.2.a
-rw-r--r--   1 klassa   eng          2012 Jun  4 12:35 libtclstub8.3.a
-r-xr-xr-x   1 klassa   eng        906684 Aug 31  1999 libtk8.2.so*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 klassa   eng        991204 Jun  4 12:38 libtk8.3.so*
-rw-r--r--   1 klassa   eng          1862 Aug 31  1999 libtkstub8.2.a
-rw-r--r--   1 klassa   eng          3706 Jun  4 12:38 libtkstub8.3.a
-rw-r--r--   1 klassa   eng        478674 Mar 29  2000 libtransfig.a

The .h files are in /users/klassa/local/include, as expected.

My LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes /users/klassa/local/lib, but does *not*
include /usr/local/lib.  When I build python, it seems happy.  When I
install it and run it, then try to "import _tkinter" (per
http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/trouble.html#checking), I get:

	% python
Python 2.1 (#1, Jun  4 2001, 13:45:22) 
[GCC 2.9-cisco-98r1] on sunos5
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import _tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: libtcl8.0.so: open failed:
No such file or directory
>>> 

Note that /users/klassa/local/lib does *not* include libtcl8.0.so, which
is undoubtedly the source of the problem.  Yet, I can't figure out how to
make python look for libtcl8.3.so.  If I change my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
include a directory that has libtcl8.0.so, it works.  I don't want 8.0,
however. :-)

I don't see anywhere that I'm explicitly telling the build process to look
in /usr/local/lib (which is where it's getting the 8.0 version), yet it
appears to want to go there anyway.  I went so far as to edit setup.py, to
remove the references to /usr/local (which it inserts, regardless -- as
borne out by the comments).  Didn't help.

I'm grasping at straws now...  Pointers to useful docs appreciated.  I
think I've read all the relevant once (I read through the tkinter
installation and trouble-shooting pages, and grepped the source tree for
other useful tidbits).

Ideas?

Thanks,
John

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John Klassa / Cisco Systems, Inc. / RTP, NC / USA / klassa at cisco.com / <><
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