Re: Help: making Macports Python installation work with an older version of Tcl

2009-07-10 Thread Frank Schima
Hi Tom, On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Tom Baldwin wrote: Hello everyone, I am seeking some help with a problem I am having running macports. When Macports installs Python, it updates Tcl and Tk to the latest version (8.5) as a dependency. For compatibility reasons, I want this Python

Re: Help: making Macports Python installation work with an older version of Tcl

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Frank Schima wrote: What I do is replace my local tcl and tk portfiles with the latest 8.4.x versions. See ticket #14488 [2] where I have attached those versions of the portfiles. Note that if you are not running from svn, you might want to turn off the write

Re: Help: making Macports Python installation work with an older version of Tcl

2009-07-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 10, 2009, at 09:47, Frank Schima wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Tom Baldwin wrote: When Macports installs Python, it updates Tcl and Tk to the latest version (8.5) as a dependency. For compatibility reasons, I want this Python installation to work with Tcl/Tk version 8.4

Re: Help: making Macports Python installation work with an older version of Tcl

2009-07-10 Thread Frank Schima
Hi Tom, Please use reply-all so that the list gets a copy too. On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Tom Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Frank Schima macsforever2...@macports.org wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Tom Baldwin wrote: Hello everyone, I am seeking some help with a

Re: Help: making Macports Python installation work with an older version of Tcl

2009-07-10 Thread Tom Baldwin
Thank you Frank! Recompiling python25 was the step I missed. Ryan, I must have missed your wiki page in my initial googling. I wish I had found it then, because it would have helped me a lot. I actually did at one point check out the last revision of Tcl 8.4 with svn, several days ago, but

Help: making Macports Python installation work with an older version of Tcl

2009-07-09 Thread Tom Baldwin
Hello everyone, I am seeking some help with a problem I am having running macports. When Macports installs Python, it updates Tcl and Tk to the latest version (8.5) as a dependency. For compatibility reasons, I want this Python installation to work with Tcl/Tk version 8.4 instead. By commanding