Update to Python 2.3 on Red Hat Linux 9

[Jay Bromley]

Rob Andrews <fatherbob70 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<7HV3b.2450 sl.138883 at twister.austin.rr.com>...
> Aside from the fact that I haven't been using pygtk, your situation sounds
> similar to one I've been trying to resolve in the occasional free moment
> lately. I posted to c.l.p on 8-27 with the subject "homebrew 2.3 install on
> RedHat9 not playing nice with Tkinter" and have not yet satisfactorily
> resolved it. So if you have amazing success, by all means feel free to
> share the details.
> 
I saw that message, it's similar to my case, but I guess I got lucky.
On my machine (a recently installed RedHat Linux 9) Tkinter didn't
work with 2.2.2, but it works fine using the default build/install of
2.3. Strange. If you haven't seen it yet
http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/trouble.html might be helpful.
I'm going to be looking at Setup.py and Modules/Setup also, so if I
see anything interesting I'll post it.

Regarding the problem I was having, libraries available to 2.2.2
aren't available to 2.3, I did some investigating and found a
subdirectory of the directory where python is installed (usually
/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib) called pkgconfig. This directory contains
text files that apparently refer to python packages. Does anyone know
where this directory comes from and where the files within are
created? It seems this could be the missing piece to my library
problem.

Thanks and regards,
Jay