On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Cyd Haselton <chasel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Skip Montanaro > <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Cyd Haselton <chasel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Unfortunately, as I quickly found out, >>> Python's built-in help function requires tkinter, which requires >>> tcl/tk. >> >> I'm a little confused. Are you using some sort of freeze system which >> is deciding Tkinter is required? I use help() all the time from the >> interpreter prompt and never get a GUI. IMO you should be able to >> strip out the gui() function (or even just comment out the Tkinter >> import). >> >> Skip > > I'm not using a freeze system, just the python I built from sources. I > may have misread the pydoc and help() documentation online. > > Additionally it appears as though some modules were not built with the > correct links to -lc -ldl, even though I added them as dependencies in > Setup and setup.py, as well as in the appropriate env variables. > Importing string, tokenize, operator, inspect...and probably others I > haven't tested...throw the 'undefined reference to dlopen' error. > > Looks like I'll need to run make distclean and start over. Is there > documentation on which modules are built where and how and with which > libraries they are linked?
A quick FYI: The decision to build 2.7.8 (instead of 3.x) on Android was made after reading this article: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
