Problem building Python 2.3.4 on RedHat Enterprise; tcl not found
wes weston
wweston at att.net
Wed Jun 2 16:35:45 EDT 2004
Russell E. Owen wrote:
> I'm trying to build Python 2.3.4 from source on a RedHat Enterprise
> machine for installation in a net-wide accessible directory /net/python.
> I tried all of the following variants of ./configure (the first was
> required for Python 2.3.3 on RedHat 9):
> ./configure --prefix=/net/python --enable-unicode=ucs4
> ./configure --prefix=/net/python
> ./configure --prefix=/net/python --enable-unicode=ucs2
>
> All of these result in the ominous message (even the last form, which
> really surprised me):
> checking for UCS-4 tcl... no
>
> Having gone through the make in one case and gotten no _tkinter, I'm
> expecting the same results for the other two cases.
>
> Any hints? At this point I'm spinning my wheels. I'm not even sure if
> tcl is built with UCS-4 or UCS-2 on RedHat Enterprise.
>
> My fallback will be to build my own tcl/tk. Blasted RedHat. Python 2.3.3
> was working just fine under RedHat 9, and I'd have been happy to keep
> using it, but Tkinter is acting flaky after the OS upgrade --
> tkColorChooser.askcolor is broken (returning strings that Python has no
> idea what to do with).
>
> -- Russell
Russell,
There is some help here:
http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.python/messages/290343.html
Appendix A was what I needed to get things working on RH9.
wes
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