Ned Deily added the comment: The problem is a regression in the latest version of ActiveTcl 8.5 for OS X, specifically 8.5.12.1 (and I believe the previous version 8.5.12.0). It has nothing directly to do with Python or how you might build Python other than whether _tkinter.so dynamically links with /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Verisons/8.5 and /Library/Framework/Tk.framework/Verisons/8.5 (the locations where ActiveTcl install) as opposed to /System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/... and /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/..., the Apple-supplied versions. And, if so, which version of ActiveTcl you have installed. The python.org 64-bit Pythons are vulnerable, the 32-bit-obly ones are not because they link with Tcl/Tk 8.4.
Unfortunately, ActiveState only makes available the most recent version of ActiveTcl on its Community Edition pages, so, unless you have access to a copy of an older version of ActiveTcl (like 8.5.11.1, the previous version), you're kind of stuck with the behavior, unless you remove ActiveTcl 8.5 and revert to Apple's Tk which is vulnerable to other crashes that have been fixed in ActiveState's (and is totally broken in OS X 10.6). Or you use the 32-bit installer and Tcl/Tk 8.4. Or you build your own version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 (I've stared looking at that). By the way, ActiveState's own ActivePython 2.7 also crashes the same way when using 8.5.12.x. I've pinged the Tcl Mac mailing list. Unless there's an immediate fix, I'll see what I can find in Tk. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.tcl.mac/7080 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15853> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
