On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Kevin Buchs wrote: > I have locked-down (by others) Linux systems, so I need my own custom install > of Python (2.7). I have yet to get Tkinter working in the build process. > Python will be in a non-standard location and Tcl/Tk are in a non-standard > location. I get these messages from a "make": > > $ make > running build > running build_ext > building dbm using gdbm > INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers > > Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not > found: > _tkinter bsddb185 dl > imageop sunaudiodev > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the > module's name. > > running build_scripts > > Do there exist any build instructions to direct me as to how to fix this? I > am not seeing anything in configure.
I use custom locations all the time - have you tried the "--prefix=" setting for configure? ./configure --prefix=/home/secureuser/ That would put everything into /home/secureuser/lib/ and /home/secureuser/bin/. Just be aware that all of the peojects need the same prefix setting. Tim
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