building 2.4.1 on HPUX

[Richard Patterson]

I'm trying to compile python 2.4.1, on HPUX10.20, with support for tk and
tcl 8.4 (installed in /opt/tk and /opt/tcl). I assume this means I need to
compile the tkinter module too..

I was getting make errors, saying it couldn't find tcl/tk libs or headers...
so I changed the setup.py script, hard coding library and include paths for
tcl/tk, but it still didn't build the _tkinter module. So next I modified
the Modules/Setup file, uncommenting, and changing compiler arguments to
point to the correct lib and include paths. At least it built this time...
so I ran make test, and got the following error for test_tcl:

TclError: Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories:
/opt/tcl8.4.4/lib/tk8.4 <etc .... the rest of the dirs listed are in my
home directory>

On my system, /opt/tk is a link to /opt/tk8.4.4, therefore, the tk.tcl file
is really in /opt/tk/lib/tk8.4/tk.tcl, but why didn't it look there?

I'm stumped. Did I really have to hack the setup.py and Setup files? Where
is it getting its paths from? Is my environment wrong, or do I need to
change some configure parameters? I'm hoping someone out there knows what
I'm doing wrong, or perhaps can point me in the right direction. Thanks
again

Rich

 

[Richard Patterson]

In case someone else reads these for information about a simliar problem....

It turns out, that I did not need to edit the setup.py script, I could just
ignore the compile time INFO statements regarding Tk/Tcl libs and includes..
I did need to modify the Modules/Setup file however...

But the final run-time trick was to define two environment variables...
TK_LIBRARY=/opt/tk/lib/tk8.4, and TCL_LIBRARY=/opt/tcl/lib/tcl8.4

Now "make test", "./python Lib/test/test_tcl.py", and all my python 1.6
scripts seem to work.

I don't know if this is the best solution, but it seems to work.