_tkinter problem

[Gordon McMillan]

Use Tk 8.0, or try Dieter Maurer patches, posted early June.

Victor S. Miller wrote:

> I had successfully built Python 1.5.2 with _tkinter using the system
> installed versions of tk and tcl (4.1 and 7.5 respectively). 
> However, I decided to download the new versions of tcl and tk (8.1
> for both), and build them.  They both built without problems, and
> ran through the test sucessfully.  I then rebuilt Python with them
> (I'm running on Solaris 2.6), which appeared to build successfully,
> however, when I try Tkinter._test(), I get:
> 
> Python 1.5.2 (#5, Jul  9 1999, 15:36:18)  [GCC 2.7.2.2] on sunos5
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> import _tkinter
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/coop/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1947,
>   in _test
>     root = Tk()
>   File "/usr/local/coop/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 886,
>   in __init__
>     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> 
> >>> 
> 
> 
> Now there's a perfectly good init.tcl in the directory
> /usr/local/coop/lib/tcl8.1, which is where make install placed it.
> Who is actually complaining about this, and how can I fix it? --
> Victor S. Miller     | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute
> can hardly victor at idaccr.org    | be expected to keep writing papers
> saying 'I can do the CCR, Princeton, NJ   | following useless
> calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
>     08540 USA        | what editor would publish them?"  -- Oliver
>     Atkin
> 
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- Gordon