I wonder if this should be mentioned in install.tex somewhere?
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To reiterate: if you don't have the tcl/tk development libraries > installed the extension will fail to build. The system python had > working bindings since that python was build in the presence of those > dev libraries. Since those aren't needed at runtime for python they > are usually not installed as a dependency. "sage -f ..." only worked > because you installed the right dev packages in the meantime. > >> Sometimes during Python compilation, it looks to see if a certain >> library is available, > > Nope, no looking involved, python's build system just "does" :) > >> and if it is it compiles the corresponding >> module, and otherwise simply doesn't. This is what it does, for >> instance, with OpenSSL, and sounds like the same thing with tkinter. >> This matches the behavior we're seeing at least. > > Python attempts to build the extension and if it fails is just moves > on. On most systems at least some extensions are broken, so this is > business as usual. > >> - Robert > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
