The problem is most likely missing header files for the Tcl/Tk libraries. Most Linux distributions (including SuSE) package the required files separately from the libraries. In Yast, look for packages with the same name and a -dev suffix. Once you have installed these, tkinter will be automatically built without any need to edit /Modules/Setup.Hi: I'm trying to compile python 2.4 with tkinter. (I'm trying to write a gui interface which calls a program called GAP - I'm hoping to use subprocess, a python 2.4 module, since I was getting deadlocks using popen).
The instructions at the python web site said basically to edit the /Modules/Setup file and recompile. The edits consist of determining with location of various Tcl/Tk libraries, header files, etc. I was wondering if anyone could help out with how to determine these. I have a suse 9.1 box and a new debian laptop, both of which I would like to configure with python 2.4 and tkinter. - David Joyner
If you are running Debian testing or unstable, you just need to install the python2.4 and python2.4-tk modules. If you need to compile extension modules, you will also need python2.4-dev.
Hope this helps.
Ray Buvel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
