[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Changes by Ned Deily : -- assignee: -> ronaldoussoren components: +Macintosh versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Katrine Whiteson added the comment: Hi, Wow, thank you for noticing this. I tried to install python 2.6.4 with the mac dmg, but couldn't figure out where it was installed. I hunted around and made a link to a python 2.6 that I found - it must have been a previous version. Now I have a f

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Ned Deily added the comment: Ah, earlier you said you installed Python 2.6.4 but, in your most recent message, it shows: katrinewhiteson$ python Python 2.6 (trunk:66714:66715M, Oct 1 2008, 18:36:04) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin I'm not sure what that is but it's no

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Katherine: how did you install Python, did you use the installer on the python.org website or some other installer (or even by building from source)? -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Katrine Whiteson added the comment: Thanks very much for your helpful and quick reply! I installed Tcl8.4 from activestate, and had the same version conflict error when I did the Tkinter test in Python. So I uninstalled both Tcl8.4 and Tcl8.5 (I did sudo ./uninstall while in this director

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Ned Deily added the comment: If you have installed Python 2.6.4 using the python.org OS X installer, it was linked with Tk 8.4, and will not use Tk 8.5. OS X 10.4 has an old version of Tk 8.4; your best bet is to install the most recent Tcl/Tk 8.4 from ActiveState Tcl/Tk. -- __

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

Katrine Whiteson added the comment: Hi, I am having a related issue installing Tkinter (which I need to install matplotlib). I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11, and just installed Python 2.6.4 . After several other fights, one remaining battle for me to get matlotlib installed is to have a worki

[issue5651] OS X Installer: add checks to ensure proper Tcl configuration during build

New submission from Ned Deily : Because OS X 10.4 and 10.5 ship with an old 8.4 version of Aqua Tcl and Tk frameworks, current practice is to build the installer image on a machine with user-installed newer 8.4 Tcl/Tk frameworks in /Library. This ensures the correct dylib search sequence is b