Re: Problem with powerpc port of tkstep8.0/python-tk

[Renaud Dreyer <rdreyer@math.berkeley.edu>]

> Hmm,
> 
> I'd say that looks different:
> 
> potato i386:
> > > /usr/lib/libtkstep8.0.so.1:
> > >         libtcl8.0.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtcl8.0.so.1 (0x400ac000)
> > >         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40114000)
> > >         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401b3000)
> > >         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401b6000)
> > >         libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x401d3000)
> > >         libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x40209000)
> > >         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4022a000)
> > >         libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40238000)
> > >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40246000)
> > >         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2aaaa000)
> 
> > This is what I get, on a potato Power Mac:
> > /usr/lib/libtkstep8.0.so.1:
> >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x6fdfd000)
> >         /lib/ld.so.1 => /lib/ld.so.1 (0x08000000)
> 
> Could you try what happens if you use
> 
>   LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 fetchmailconf
> 
> (provided libXpm is found in that directory) ?

rdreyer:~$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 fetchmailconf
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 9, in ?
    from Tkinter import *
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 8, in ?
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: /usr/lib/tkstep/libtk8.0.so.1: undefined symbol: TIFFReadRGBAImage

> I guess the powermac tkstep8.0 library lacks the dependencies
> and therefore python-tk fails to pull the necessary libraries.
> 
>     Gregor