On OS-X the directories searched by setup.py for Tk are in the wrong order.

[MLModel]

BPO	4813
Nosy	@ronaldoussoren, @MLModel

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title = 'On OS-X the directories searched by setup.py for Tk are in the wrong order.'
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[MLModel]

In function detect_tkinter_darwin of setup.py framework_dirs should be
the reverse of what it is: first the user's library should be searched,
then /Library, and finally /System/Library. If Tk 8.5 is installed in
/Library or ~/Library make will otherwise find the headers from 8.4 but
the libraries from 8.5.

bpo-4017 discusses this problem, among others, and is marked fixed,
but it is still incorrect in the 2.6 and 3.0 downloads as well as in the
trunk, 3.0, and 3.1 subversion repositories. It may have been "fixed"
in so far as someone was able to make a .dmg by manually altering
setup.py, and that's great, but it isn't fixed in the source and the
problem will reappear with each new version.

[BreamoreBoy]

I've no idea whether this is still a problem.

[ronaldoussoren]

This issue is no longer valid, the current search order from setup.py:

    def detect_tkinter_darwin(self, inc_dirs, lib_dirs):
        # The _tkinter module, using frameworks. Since frameworks are quite
        # different the UNIX search logic is not sharable.
        from os.path import join, exists
        framework_dirs = [
            '/Library/Frameworks',
            '/System/Library/Frameworks/',
            join(os.getenv('HOME'), '/Library/Frameworks')
        ]

        sysroot = macosx_sdk_root()

This matches the order in which the linker searches.