Mac OS X: building with X11 Tkinter

[ceball]

BPO	1584
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @ronaldoussoren, @tiran, @ned-deily, @asvetlov
Files	issue1584_rev0.patch

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assignee = 'https://github.com/ned-deily'
closed_at = <Date 2013-10-25.07:59:53.080>
created_at = <Date 2007-12-11.04:04:58.507>
labels = ['type-feature', 'expert-tkinter', 'build']
title = 'Mac OS X: building with X11 Tkinter'
updated_at = <Date 2013-10-25.07:59:53.078>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/ceball'

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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1584'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4']

[ceball]

On OS X, I wanted to build my own copy of Python that used my own copy
of Tkinter (built for X11).

To do this, I passed "LDFLAGS=-rpath,/path/to/lib" to configure so that
Python could find my specific lib files, but I also had to edit Python's
setup.py so that detect_tkinter() would not do anything special for Darwin:

$ diff setup.py original_setup.py 
1199c1199
<         if 0 and (platform == 'darwin' and

---

    if (platform == 'darwin' and

I did this based on a post by Ronald Oussoren to the Python-SIG Mac
mailing list [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.apple/14008].
He also suggested that I file a bug report, asking for an argument to be
added to python's configure script to avoid having to edit setup.py.

Thanks

[tiran]

The problem is already fixed in svn. Can you download a svn checkout and
verify it that the code is working?

41848 skip.montanaro if (platform == 'darwin' and

[birkenfeld]

Crys: look closely at the diff, the "0 and " is in the modified file.

[ceball]

I apologize for the confusion: I put the modified file first and the
original second.

Sorry about that!

An option to do nothing special to find Tk and Tcl on darwin is what
would be useful.

[bitdancer]

Reopening since additional feedback was provided clarifying the request.

How does this request interact with the business about building the Mac
installer with a local tk installed? Does the fact that that does
something useful mean that this request is in fact out of date? Looking
at the setup.py comments, I suspect not.

[ronaldoussoren]

Adding support for building an X11 version of Tkinter would require an
explicit flag to configure, defaulting to a build that uses AquaTk (which
most people would like to use).

I'm not interested in creating a patch for this, but am willing to review
patches for this.

[BreamoreBoy]

This will go nowhere unless someone supplies a patch.

[ceball]

Sorry, I don't have a Mac, and I don't have access to one that I could use to make a patch.

At the time, I was trying to support OS X users of a piece of Python/Tkinter software. Please do not keep this issue open on my account.

Thanks,
Chris

[asvetlov]

Is there actual?