Thanks -- I'll give that a try. T. Davis On Dec 1, 7:04 pm, Timothy Davis <cistim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sage-support: > > I am trying to build Sage 4.2.1 from source on a Linux machine running SUSE > Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64). > > The build proceeds to the end, but I have a persistent problem with the > build process failing to find the "bits" for Tkinter. I have seen your FAQ > item which addresses the Tkinter problem in Sage builds, but I don't have > access to the tcl developer library. It appears to be software which isn't > Open Source, and it does not seem to be part of the SLED distro on my > machine. Is there another work around to resolve this issue? > > What I find strange is that I can build Python 2.6 "stand-alone" from source > on the same machine using the same version of gcc I used for sage, provided > that I have the path to the tcl/tk libraries in the environment variable > LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That doesn't work for the 'sage' build, nor does using > LD_RUN_PATH. > > My main goal is to have access to the numpy/scipy/matplotlib tools, and I'm > finding that building some of those pieces individually for a "stand-alone" > python 2.6 isn't all that easy. It's attractive to use something like sage > which relieves me of the burden of having to find and build all of the parts > and pieces for a useful python environment. > > Also, I looked at the pre-built binary distros of sage, and there isn't one > for SLED 10 -- the SuSE 11 version doesn't work on my system. > > I've included a little more system info below. > > Thanks in advance. > > T. Davis > > uname -arv > Linux rds625 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 21 13:29:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2222 > cpu Mhz 3000.000 > 16 Gbyte physical memory > > SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) > VERSION = 10 > PATCHLEVEL = 1 > > sage-4.2.1/spkg> gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.2.3 > > sage-4.2.1/spkg> g++ --version > g++ (GCC) 4.2.3 > > From my local, stand-alone installation of python2.6, built with tcl/tk > libraries in LD_LIBRARY_PATH: > > >>> import Tkinter > >>> Tkinter._test() > > Within sage, the same operation as above produces import errors.
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