python builds without tkinter

[Andy Fawcett]

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:16, Guy Middleton wrote:
> On a 5.3-BETA5 system, built Python from the port, tkinter appears to
> be missing:
>
>
> $ python
> Python 2.3.4 (#2, Sep 29 2004, 02:13:43)
> [GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
>
> >>> import Tkinter
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured
> for Tk ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>
>
>
> The system has tcl8.4 and tk8.4 installed, I thought the Python port
> would be able to find these.

See /usr/ports/lang/python/pkg-message, to see why tkinter is not 
installed by default.

A.

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