Problem building Python 2.3.4 on RedHat Enterprise; tcl not found

[wes weston]

Russell E. Owen wrote:
> I'm trying to build Python 2.3.4 from source on a RedHat Enterprise 
> machine for installation in a net-wide accessible directory /net/python. 
> I tried all of the following variants of ./configure (the first was 
> required for Python 2.3.3 on RedHat 9):
> ./configure --prefix=/net/python --enable-unicode=ucs4
> ./configure --prefix=/net/python
> ./configure --prefix=/net/python --enable-unicode=ucs2
> 
> All of these result in the ominous message (even the last form, which 
> really surprised me):
> checking for UCS-4 tcl... no
> 
> Having gone through the make in one case and gotten no _tkinter, I'm 
> expecting the same results for the other two cases.
> 
> Any hints? At this point I'm spinning my wheels. I'm not even sure if 
> tcl is built with UCS-4 or UCS-2 on RedHat Enterprise.
> 
> My fallback will be to build my own tcl/tk. Blasted RedHat. Python 2.3.3 
> was working just fine under RedHat 9, and I'd have been happy to keep 
> using it, but Tkinter is acting flaky after the OS upgrade -- 
> tkColorChooser.askcolor is broken (returning strings that Python has no 
> idea what to do with).
> 
> -- Russell

Russell,
    There is some help here:

http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.python/messages/290343.html

Appendix A was what I needed to get things working on RH9.

wes