tkinter does not load in FC-5 and devel

[David Cantrell]

Jose' Matos wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I searched in bugzilla so I am asking here what is the place to report this.
> 
> Example:
> $ ipython
> ...
> In [1]: from Tkinter import *
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.ImportError                               Traceback (most recent 
> call last)
> 
> /root/<ipython console>
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
>      36 if sys.platform == "win32":
>      37     import FixTk # Attempt to configure Tcl/Tk without requiring PATH
> ---> 38 import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for 
> Tk
>      39 tkinter = _tkinter # b/w compat for export
>      40 TclError = _tkinter.TclError
> 
> ImportError: libTix8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> 	The problem here is that tkinter requires libTix8.4.so that belongs to tix
> 
> # rpm -ql tix | grep .so
> /usr/lib/Tix8.4/Console.tcl
> /usr/lib/Tix8.4/libTix8.4.so
> 
> 	Yet in no place is ldconfig told to search for it, that is if I 
> add /usr/lib/Tix8.4 to /etc/ld.so.conf it works.
> 
> 	Have this been reported before? Where should I add this report? python, 
> tix, ...
> 
> 	I am reporting this since python-imaging does not build its tk interface due 
> to this. It works for FC-4 but not for FC-5 and devel.

This bug belongs to tix and it has been reported:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187739

I'm fixing it now.

Thank you,

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA