Hello Python developers, I have noticed something curious while I was investigating a problem with the PyInstaller.
In my environment, the PyInstaller couldn't find TCL/TK installation path even I have it. I found the PyInstaller uses output from ldd <dynamic link libary> to find the a path to TCL/TK libraries. But no dynamic libraries under my Python 5 lib-dynload directoty contain a path to TCL/TK libraries. When I posted this problem to the PyInstaller newsgroup, a guy responded that he didn't have such problem. After several exchanges, what we found was his lib-dynload directory contains _tkinter.so (even he has the same Python2.5.2) while my lib- dynload directory doesn't have it. He installed the Python using package tool (no fresh compile) while I installed my Python from src (clean compile). I recompiled Python 2.4 and confirmed that Python 2.4 creates _tkinter.so. After browsing the Makefile under Python 2.5, I had an impression that Python 2.5 no longer uses _tkinter.so. Am I correct? If that is the case, I need to warn the PyInstaller developers that the scheme to find TCL/TK path is no longer valid. Any comments will be highly appreciated. Thank you for your attention. Aki Niimura -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list