[Image-SIG] Re: PIL 1.1.4 install on redhat9

[Fredrik Lundh]

Luciano Nocera wrote:

> just installed PIL on redhat9 and I ran into the following problems
> compiling:
>
> # python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 290, in ?
>     extra_compile_args=EXTRA_COMPILE_ARGS,
> NameError: name 'EXTRA_COMPILE_ARGS' is not defined
>
> To compile I had to put the following line 122 of setup.py:
>
> EXTRA_COMPILE_ARGS = None
> EXTRA_LINK_ARGS = None
>
> I've tested that import works fine, however I did not use PIL on images
> yet. If I have further problems I'll post.

It looks like this may occur if you have the FreeType library but
not Tkinter.  (Most RedHat systems have both).

I'll fix this in 1.1.5.

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