_tkinter installation problem with Python 2.3b1

[Chad Netzer]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 14:33, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Chad Netzer <cnetzer at mail.arc.nasa.gov> writes:

> > But his example seemed to indicate clearly that it should be
> > (-L/usr/local/lib).
> 
> No, it doesn't, see ld(1). The dynamic linker does not care at all
> about -L options. Try -R, -Wl,--rpath, LD_RUN_PATH, or
> /etc/ld.so.conf. Ask google about these in prior postings of this
> newsgroup.

Ah, I see.  You are saying that gcc probably built the module, but the
system couldn't load it because ld did not have /usr/local/lib in its
search path?

If that is the case, then adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
should fix it.  Dan? Care to try it?

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Chad Netzer
(any opinion expressed is my own and not NASA's or my employer's)