_tkinter fails when installing Python 2.4.4

[jgelfand]

On Mar 25, 5:52 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> jgelfand schrieb:
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> > 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":
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> > 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
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> > 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.

Thanks -- Yosi