[Pythonmac-SIG] help build unix python on Mac

[Russell E Owen]

I've already installed a framework build of Python 2.2.2 (with Aqua 
Tk 8.4.1) from source. I would also like a non-framework build that 
uses unix X style Tk windows (so I can see how my application will 
look to unix users).

The problem I have is I keep getting a python that uses the Aqua 
(framework) Tk instead of the unix X Tk that I also have installed.

Any hints on how to do this? Details on what I tried are appended.

I suppose I can just use fink, but was hoping to just do everything 
from source.

-- Russell


Details:
- I first installed the framework stuff from source (tcl 8.4.1, tk 
8.4.1 and Python 2.2.2). I did this many months ago and have been 
happily using it ever since.

So...the next step was to get the non-framework unix X stuff installed:

- installed Apple's X11 application and X11 SDK using Apple's two 
package installers

- tried to clear out as much of the old stuff as possible, having 
first plowed ahead w/out and run into the problem of Python seeing 
only the framework Tk:

- went into /usr/local
- deleted all tcl and Tk and python stuff (except pythonw) in ./bin, 
./includes and ./lib.

I then built tcl and Tk from their unix directories. This worked with 
a few warnings. One oddity: there was a /usr/local/bin/wish8.4 but no 
/usr/local/bin/wish. If I typed "wish" at the terminal I got the Aqua 
(framework) wish. So I I made /usr/local/wish a symbolic link, closed 
the terminal window and opened a new one (as one seems to have to do 
after messing with /usr/local/bin).

unix X11-baseed Tk seems to work. Typing % wish at a Terminal brings 
up the X11 wish. I can add widgets and use them. That's all the 
testing I've done.

I then rebuilt python using:
% make clean
% ./configure
% make

Unfortunately, it is linking against the framework build of Tcl/Tk. I 
get warnings like:
/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers/X11/Xlib.h:140: warning: 
function declaration isn't a prototype

and if I finish with sudo make install I get the usual framework Tk stuff.

I've tried about 4 variations on of this sequence with no luck. I 
really don't want to have to clear *everything* (including the 
framework stuff) out and risk breaking a working framework build. Any 
suggestions?