_tkinter problem
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Sat Jul 10 00:07:20 EDT 1999
Use Tk 8.0, or try Dieter Maurer patches, posted early June.
Victor S. Miller wrote:
> I had successfully built Python 1.5.2 with _tkinter using the system
> installed versions of tk and tcl (4.1 and 7.5 respectively).
> However, I decided to download the new versions of tcl and tk (8.1
> for both), and build them. They both built without problems, and
> ran through the test sucessfully. I then rebuilt Python with them
> (I'm running on Solaris 2.6), which appeared to build successfully,
> however, when I try Tkinter._test(), I get:
>
> Python 1.5.2 (#5, Jul 9 1999, 15:36:18) [GCC 2.7.2.2] on sunos5
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> import _tkinter
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/local/coop/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1947,
> in _test
> root = Tk()
> File "/usr/local/coop/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 886,
> in __init__
> self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>
>
>
>
>
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
>
> >>>
>
>
> Now there's a perfectly good init.tcl in the directory
> /usr/local/coop/lib/tcl8.1, which is where make install placed it.
> Who is actually complaining about this, and how can I fix it? --
> Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute
> can hardly victor at idaccr.org | be expected to keep writing papers
> saying 'I can do the CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless
> calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
> 08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver
> Atkin
>
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- Gordon
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