homebrew 2.3 install on RedHat9 not playing nice with Tkinter

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Martin Franklin wrote
> Red Hat Linux: Red Hat 9 built Python2.2 in UCS-4 mode and hacked
>         Tcl to support it. To compile Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will
>         need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag to ./configure.
> 
> Which I did and now _tkinter.so is building  of the box
> so in answer to OP read the README;-)

Note that this will "work", but the resulting tk applications will leak
memory like a sieve. 

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