config errors on Freebsd and python 2.3

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Mon Jan 9 12:08:33 EST 2006


"rainbow.cougar at gmail.com" <rainbow.cougar at gmail.com> writes:
> Safeer Tabassum wrote:
>> why you are not installing it from ports?
> The port distribution doesn't build to support Tkinter. 

Looks like they changed that recently - because it used to build it by
default. Tkinter is now installed by x11-toolkits/py-tkinter.

> That's why I started building python from source. And since I'm
> building from source I can be more up-to-date then the ports
> distribution, and include pil, pmw, etc in the build.

The current ports Python is 2.4.2. Do you have a newer version of
Python? And pil/pmw and a lot of other things are already in the ports
tree as separate ports.

     <mike
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