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 working version of Tkinter, although there are several in my Mac from Xcode and also Python, I guess they just aren't installed in useful places? After I installed Python 2.6.4, import _tkinter failed. So I installed Tcl 8.5 from active state.

Now, I make it to the Tkinter test:

            Tkinter._test() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3746, in _test root = Tk() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1645, in init self._loadtk() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1659, in _loadtk % (_tkinter.TK_VERSION, tk_version) RuntimeError: tk.h version (8.4) doesn't match libtk.a version (8.5)

I realize you have discussed the exact error I am describing here: http://bugs.python.org/issue4017

but those errors arose from a problem with an earlier version of python, where setup.py reversed the order of where to look. The advice in your previous post is to fix this order in setup.py and rebuild python, but my setup.py is already looking good - it includes these lines:

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')

I would really appreciate any insight on how to handle this!( I am a biologist...)

While I'm at it, I'll include what is going on when I try to install m matplotlib in case it is useful...matplotlib thinks I have Tkinter 8.4 (ironically, only after I installed 8.5, before that it always said it could not find Tkinter):

Tkinter: Tkinter: 65971, Tk: 8.4, Tcl: 8.4

also, here is the error I run into when trying to build matplotlib:

powerpc-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk' i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk' /usr/bin/ld: -syslibroot: multiply specified collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /usr/bin/ld: -syslibroot: multiply specified collect2: ld returned 1 exit status lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccrblCgU.out (No such file or directory) error: command 'g++' failed with exit status 1 make: * [mpl_build] Error 1

thank you!!

Katrine