Build Python 2.5 against Tk 8.5

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Tue Oct 16 14:56:08 EDT 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> 
> Can you please clarify what you mean by "stock Python installation"?
> I just built Python 2.5.1 with Tk 8.5 on Debian unstable, and it works
> fine.

OK, that's good to know. I'm using the precompiled Mac OS X build of 
2.5.1 from python.org.

>
> It's still not clear. I'm the current maintainer of the _tkinter module,
> and I can assert that _tkinter.c does *not* hard-code Tk 8.4. As you
> refer to _tkinter.so, it appears you are talking about a precompiled
> version - did you try to build Python yourself?

I'll try to build Python from source and link it against Tk 8.5.
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