[Python-Dev] Can't compile _tkinter.c with Redhat 9 (post-SF#719880) (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter anthony@interlink.com.au
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:47:34 +1000

[only tangentially related to python-dev, but a followup to a previous annoying problem]

I finally got annoyed enough by the Redhat 9 tcl/tk disaster to do something about it. I grabbed the tcl/tk source for the version installed in RH9 (the original source, not the one modified by redhat) and rebuilt it, and made a couple of RPMs.

http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/tech/rh9-tcltk/

I have no idea at all about the state of unicode/UCS2/UCS4 in these builds, it's just built with whatever tcl/tk 8.3.5 builds by default. I only deal with 8 bit fonts, so I don't care enough about the state of multi-byte fonts in tcl/tk to spend time on this. I do care about having my exmh chew through 100 meg of memory on startup and then leaking memory like a sieve, however, and this version of the RPMs seem to fix this.

Python2.2-cvs and Python2.3-cvs seem to build fine against it.

Anthony

Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
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