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Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources

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In article <lkds4j$khg$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
 Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know its my own fault (because I should just know this) but I got to 
> wondering about others who 'might not know' about the tcl/tk dev 
> packages and would be scratching their heads about why _tkinter is 
> missing and IDLE won't run, although tcl/tk is installed correctly and 
> running?

If the Python build (the "make sharedmods" build step) can't 
successfully build the _tkinter extension module (because, for example, 
it couldn't find the Tk headers or libraries), the build step already 
reports that it could not build _tkinter.  It does the same for all of 
the other extension module builds, some of which also require 
third-party headers and libraries, like those from OpenSSL, zlib, bz2, 
etc.  Also, most people don't build Python from source - they install 
Python from a distributor - and the people who do generally know (or 
learn quickly) what dependencies are needed for their needs.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

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idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 12:56 -0500
  Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-05-07 11:19 -0700
    Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 14:42 -0500
      Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-05-07 19:49 -0700
    Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 14:42 -0500
  Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources kfsone@gmail.com - 2014-06-12 13:35 -0700
    Re: idle glitch while building python 3.4 from sources Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-12 19:44 -0400

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