On 8 Dec, 2007, at 1:40, C. E. Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On OS X, I'd like to be able to build my own copy of Python that uses > my own copy of Tkinter (built for X11). I've seen several posts to > this list where people mention building python this way (e.g. [1] and > [2] below), but I'm pretty unfamiliar with the concepts, so I wonder > if someone could give me some more help, or point me to a place where > there are some instructions?
I don't know of any instructions for that, but it should be straightforward to build such a beast. There is one tricky bit though: Python's build process "knows" that Tcl/Tk on OSX is a framework and won't even look for a unixy library location. That's easy to work around though: edit setup.py and look for the definition of detect_tkinter. At the start of that method it checks if the platform is 'darwin' and does something osx-specific when it is. Just disable that test to get the standard unix behaviour. That is, replace " if (platform == 'darwin' and" by " if 0 and (platform == 'darwin' and". BTW. Could you please file a bug report for this at bugs.python.org? It would be fairly easy to add an argument to python's configure script that does this automaticly. I don't have time to work on that right now and a bugreport would help us to remember that adding such an argument would be useful to people. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
