In article <lkds4j$khg$1...@speranza.aioe.org>, Mark H Harris <harrismh...@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, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
