On a Red Hat 9 system, I downloaded the python2.4-2.4. 1-1pydotorg.src.rpm and, following the web page ran "rpm --rebuild . ..". It went a long for a good long while with no apparent errors and then said: --- RPM build errors: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/python2.4-2.4. 1-root/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so* --- I looked in the directory and there is, in fact, no _tkinter.so file(s) there. -- Marty Heyman
Logged In: YES user_id=421967 APOLOGIES: ADDITIONAL INFO FOLLOWS ---Snip from rebuild output follows In file included from /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.1/Modules/_tkinter.c:67: /usr/include/tk.h:83:29: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.1/Modules/_tkinter.c:67: /usr/include/tk.h:581: parse error before "Bool" /usr/include/tk.h:583: parse error before "event" /usr/include/tk.h:584: parse error before "root" /usr/include/tk.h:585: parse error before "subwindow" /usr/include/tk.h:586: parse error before "time" /usr/include/tk.h:586: `time' redeclared as different kind of symbol /usr/include/time.h:184: previous declaration of `time' /usr/include/tk.h:591: parse error before "same_screen" --- snip ends many more "parse error lines occurred after this. I doubt they're interesting . A bit later, another group of failures begins --Snip starts In file included from /usr/include/tk.h:1361, from /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.1/Modules/_tkinter.c:67: /usr/include/tkDecls.h:37: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/tkDecls.h:39: parse error before "Tk_3DBorderGC" /usr/include/tkDecls.h:45: parse error before "Drawable" /usr/include/tkDecls.h:50: parse error before "Drawable" /usr/include/tkDecls.h:58: parse error before "XEvent" --Snip ends Again, there are many more similar messages following those and then: --Snip starts /usr/include/tkDecls.h:843: `GC' declared as function returning a function ... [parse errors] /usr/include/tkDecls.h:906: `Font' declared as function returning a function --Snip ends There are many such embedded in that group. Then the messages stop followed by a line that says: "running build_scripts" ... and things proceed as if all was OK for hundreds more lines of output before the failure copied into the original report. I captured the complete log and can upload it if needed on request. I'd need to trim it and it doesn't look all that interesting otherwise but then, what do I know :-)
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Ah, so it seems you are lacking the X11 header files. They should have been installed as a dependency on the Tk headers. So this is either a Redhat bug (for not including a dependency of the -dev packages) or a local misconfiguration of some kind (e.g. forcefully installing Tk headers without all prerequisites present).
Logged In: YES user_id=1321225 I had a similar problem compiling python from source on a (nominally) redhat8 system. For whatever reason, X11 headers were not installed (probably because it's a server I only use from an ssh console). YMMV Try: apt-get install XFree86-devel or: rpm -i XFree86-devel-.rpm
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