compile python witout tkinter

[kosh at aesaeion.com]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Gerhard [iso-8859-15] Häring wrote:

> * kosh at aesaeion.com <kosh at aesaeion.com> [2002-06-21 01:26 -0600]:
> > On a machine I need to build python on I need to build it without tkinter.
>
> Why? Even if Tkinter gets compiled, it doesn't change anything for the
> rest. You could even delete the tkinter modules afterwards, if you're
> short on disk (quota).

Because the libraries it depends on are not installed on that machine and
there is no point installing them since they are not needed.