From: Martin v. Löwis Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:29:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Patch #753845: Update README for Redhat 9 Tkinter compile with USC-4. X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~451 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3efa04a7e828b280d393fdb5435638540422774a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Patch #753845: Update README for Redhat 9 Tkinter compile with USC-4. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 9bddfa2e3561..8cf6f4fffdfd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -318,8 +318,12 @@ Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in module now needs the -lcrypt option. The setup.py script takes care of this automatically. -Red Hat Linux: There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python - 1.5.2 on most Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools +Red Hat Linux: Red Hat 9 built Python2.2 in UCS-4 mode and hacked + Tcl to support it. To compile Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will + need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag to ./configure. + + There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python + 1.5.2 on most older Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools require this version. Python 2.1.x may be installed as /usr/bin/python2. The Makefile installs Python as /usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence