_tkinter fails when installing Python 2.4.4

[Diez B. Roggisch]

jgelfand wrote:

> On Mar 25, 5:52 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>> jgelfand schrieb:
>>
>>
>>
>> > I'm installing Python 2.4.4 on a CentOS release 4.6 (Final) [RedHat
>> > Enterprise Linux 4.6] 64-bit machine. Running "./configure --prefix="/
>> > usr/local/yosi/ciao-4.0/ots" --enable-shared" appears to be fine, but
>> > I get the following error message when I run "make":
>>
>> > building '_tkinter' extension
>> > gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -
>> > Wstrict-prototypes -DWITH_APPINIT=1 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I/usr/
>> > local/yosi/Python-2.5.2/./Include -I/usr/local/yosi/ciao-4.0/ots/
>> > include -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/
>> > yosi/Python-2.5.2/Include -I/usr/local/yosi/Python-2.5.2 -c /usr/local/
>> > yosi/Python-2.5.2/Modules/_tkinter.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/
>> > usr/local/yosi/Python-2.5.2/Modules/_tkinter.o
>> > gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -
>> > Wstrict-prototypes -DWITH_APPINIT=1 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I/usr/
>> > local/yosi/Python-2.5.2/./Include -I/usr/local/yosi/ciao-4.0/ots/
>> > include -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/
>> > yosi/Python-2.5.2/Include -I/usr/local/yosi/Python-2.5.2 -c /usr/local/
>> > yosi/Python-2.5.2/Modules/tkappinit.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/
>> > usr/local/yosi/Python-2.5.2/Modules/tkappinit.o
>> > gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/usr/local/yosi/
>> > Python-2.5.2/Modules/_tkinter.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/usr/local/
>> > yosi/Python-2.5.2/Modules/tkappinit.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/
>> > lib -L/usr/local/yosi/ciao-4.0/ots/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L. -ltk8.5 -
>> > ltcl8.5 -lX11 -lpython2.5 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.5/_tkinter.so
>> > *** WARNING: renaming "_tkinter" since importing it failed: build/
>> > lib.linux-x86_64-2.5/_tkinter.so: undefined symbol: XftGlyphExtents
>>
>> > Any suggestions / ideas as to what is going wrong?  I don't get any
>> > other warnings or errors on the other modules.  Thanks -- Yosi
>>
>> You are aware that the above shows python 2.5 as the version that is
>> being used for compilation?
>>
>> Diez
> 
> Sorry.  I get the same error messages for Python 2.4.4, Python 2.4.5,
> and Python 2.5.  The software package I'm trying to build from source
> requests that I install Python 2.4.4, so I'm interesting in solutions
> for that particular distribution.

I think the actual problem is that the linking doesn't find the
XftGlyphExtends. I can only guess, but it might be related to
64-bit-problems. Make sure you have the library that contains the
XftGlyphExtends is available in the lib64 dirs and so forth. 

Diez