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3.7. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
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3.8. Q. Trouble with socket I/O on older Linux 1.x versions.
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3.9. Q. Trouble with prototypes on Ultrix.
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3.10. Q. Trouble with posix.listdir on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
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3.11. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
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3.12. Q. How to configure dynamic loading on Linux.
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3.13. Q. Errors when linking with a shared library containing C++ code.
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3.14. Q. I built with tkintermodule.c enabled but get "Tkinter not found".
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3.15. Q. I built with Tk 4.0 but Tkinter complains about the Tk version.
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3.16. Q. Link errors for Tcl/Tk symbols when linking with Tcl/Tk.
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3.17. Q. I configured and built Python for Tcl/Tk but "import Tkinter"
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3.10. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
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3.11. Q. How to configure dynamic loading on Linux.
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3.12. Q. Errors when linking with a shared library containing C++ code.
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3.13. Q. I built with tkintermodule.c enabled but get "Tkinter not found".
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3.14. Q. I built with Tk 4.0 but Tkinter complains about the Tk version.
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3.15. Q. Link errors for Tcl/Tk symbols when linking with Tcl/Tk.
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3.16. Q. I configured and built Python for Tcl/Tk but "import Tkinter"
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fails.
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3.18. Q. Tk doesn't work right on DEC Alpha.
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3.19. Q. Several common system calls are missing from the posix module.
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3.20. Q. ImportError: No module named string, on MS Windows.
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3.21. Q. Core dump on SGI when using the gl module.
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3.17. Q. Tk doesn't work right on DEC Alpha.
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3.18. Q. Several common system calls are missing from the posix module.
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3.19. Q. ImportError: No module named string, on MS Windows.
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3.20. Q. Core dump on SGI when using the gl module.
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4. Programming in Python
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4.1. Q. Is there a source code level debugger with breakpoints, step,
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A. Ultrix cc seems broken -- use gcc, or edit config.h to #undef
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HAVE_PROTOTYPES.
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3.10. Q. Trouble with posix.listdir on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
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A. (This often manifests itself as a weird error from the
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compileall.py script run by "make libinstall".)
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Don't use gcc, use the Next C compiler (cc). Even though it is
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derived from (an old version of) gcc, its interpretation of the
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"-posix" switch is different; in this particular case, cc is right and
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gcc is wrong.
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3.11. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
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3.10. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
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A. Please email the details to <guido@cnri.reston.va.us> and I'll look
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into it. Please provide as many details as possible. In particular,
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what is the matter. If you get a specific error message, please email
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it to me too.
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3.12. Q. How to configure dynamic loading on Linux.
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3.11. Q. How to configure dynamic loading on Linux.
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A. This is now automatic as long as your Linux version uses the ELF
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object format (all recent Linuxes do).
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3.13. Q. Errors when linking with a shared library containing C++ code.
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3.12. Q. Errors when linking with a shared library containing C++ code.
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A. Link the main Python binary with C++. Change the definition of
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LINKCC in Modules/Makefile to be your C++ compiler. You may have to
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edit config.c slightly to make it compilable with C++.
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3.14. Q. I built with tkintermodule.c enabled but get "Tkinter not found".
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3.13. Q. I built with tkintermodule.c enabled but get "Tkinter not found".
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A. Tkinter.py (note: upper case T) lives in a subdirectory of Lib,
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Lib/tkinter. If you are using the default module search path, you
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TKPATH; if you use the environment variable PYTHONPATH, you'll have to
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add the proper tkinter subdirectory.
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3.15. Q. I built with Tk 4.0 but Tkinter complains about the Tk version.
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3.14. Q. I built with Tk 4.0 but Tkinter complains about the Tk version.
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A. Several things could cause this. You most likely have a Tk 3.6
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installation that wasn't completely eradicated by the Tk 4.0
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compiles!); you may actually have linked with Tk 3.6 even though Tk
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4.0 is also around. Similar for Tcl 7.4 vs. Tcl 7.3.
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3.16. Q. Link errors for Tcl/Tk symbols when linking with Tcl/Tk.
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3.15. Q. Link errors for Tcl/Tk symbols when linking with Tcl/Tk.
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Quite possibly, there's a version mismatch between the Tcl/Tk header
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files (tcl.h and tk.h) and the tck/tk libraries you are using (the
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7.4/4.0 by default. Changing this to 7.5/4.1 should take care of
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this.
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3.17. Q. I configured and built Python for Tcl/Tk but "import Tkinter"
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3.16. Q. I configured and built Python for Tcl/Tk but "import Tkinter"
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fails.
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A. Most likely, you forgot to enable the line in Setup that says
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"TKPATH=:$(DESTLIB)/tkinter".
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3.18. Q. Tk doesn't work right on DEC Alpha.
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3.17. Q. Tk doesn't work right on DEC Alpha.
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A. You probably compiled either Tcl, Tk or Python with gcc. Don't.
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For this platform, which has 64-bit integers, gcc is known to generate
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the instabilities seem to be restricted to the DEC Alpha.) See also
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question 3.6.
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3.19. Q. Several common system calls are missing from the posix module.
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3.18. Q. Several common system calls are missing from the posix module.
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A. Most likely, *all* test compilations run by the configure script
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are failing for some reason or another. Have a look in config.log to
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directory to the --with-readline option that doesn't contain the
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libreadline.a file.
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3.20. Q. ImportError: No module named string, on MS Windows.
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3.19. Q. ImportError: No module named string, on MS Windows.
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A. Most likely, your PYTHONPATH environment variable should be set to
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something like:
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(assuming Python was installed in c:\python)
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3.21. Q. Core dump on SGI when using the gl module.
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3.20. Q. Core dump on SGI when using the gl module.
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There are conflicts between entry points in the termcap and curses
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libraries and an entry point in the GL library. There's a hack of a
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<URL:ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/X-extension.tar.gz>.
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Support by Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@cwi.nl>.
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- On top of the X11 interface there's the (recently revived) vpApp
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toolkit by Per Spilling, now also maintained by Sjoerd Mullender
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<sjoerd@cwi.nl>. See <URL:ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/sjoerd/vpApp.tar.gz>.
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- The Mac port has a rich and ever-growing set of modules that support
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the native Mac toolbox calls. See the documentation that comes with
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the Mac port. See <URL:ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/mac>. Support
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