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I have been packaging python for AIX - and wanting minimal dependancies 
I have been ignoring the final messages from make.

Personally, I do not see any real harm in the missing *audio "bits", but 
how terrible are the other missing "bits" for normal python programs?

Many thanks for feedback!

...
building dbm using ndbm
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers

Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules 
were not found:
_bsddb             _curses_panel      _sqlite3
_tkinter           bsddb185           dl
gdbm               imageop            linuxaudiodev
ossaudiodev        readline           spwd
sunaudiodev