Bug 246774 - dev-lang/tk-8.4.19 does not build a good python Tkinter module
Bug#: 246774 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: 2008.0 Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: DUPLICATE Assigned To: tcltk@gentoo.org Reported By: fmccor@gentoo.org
Component: Applications
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Summary: dev-lang/tk-8.4.19 does not build a good python Tkinter module
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2008-11-14 20:58 0000
Description:   Opened: 2008-11-14 20:58 0000 
On both sparc and on amd64, with tk-8.4.19 an attempt on python to use the
Tkinter module from
import Tkinter
results in a failure;  I'll attach a traceback demonstrating the problem from
the pysol package:

1) This is dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7;
2) Rebuilding python for tk-8.4.19 makes no difference;
3) But after downgrading to {tcl, tk}-8.4.18, everything is fine again.

I'm reporting against tk because the problem appears with the {tcl, tk} version
change.

------- Comment #1 From Ferris McCormick 2008-11-14 21:02:44 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=171746) [details]
Trace file (on sparc) of the Tkinter failure with the tk-8.4.19 upgrade

This little traceback from python shows the problem it has using Tkinter with
tk-8.4.19.  This trace is from a sparc system, but results are the same on
amd64.  Test program is the pysol solitaire games package, and it has been
completely stable for many years (although perhaps not as a Gentoo package). 
pysol is pure python, using tk as its took kit.

------- Comment #2 From Ferris McCormick 2008-11-14 21:06:03 0000 ------- 
Adding python people in case this is really theirs.

------- Comment #3 From Federico Ferri 2008-11-15 22:37:20 0000 ------- 
which version of tk exactly doesn't spots this problem?
is really 8.4.18, or perhaps it is 8.4.18-r1?

because since 8.4.18-r1 ebuild includes a patch that *should* have solved this
problem.

please also tell me your version of x11-proto/xproto.

------- Comment #4 From Ferris McCormick 2008-11-16 00:08:16 0000 ------- 
On both failing systems, xproto-7.0.13.  But here we go:
On the failing systems, genlop tells us:

Sun Oct 26 14:09:15 2008 >>> dev-lang/tk-8.4.19

Changelog tells us:


 27 Oct 2008; Federico Ferri <mescalinum@gentoo.org>
  +files/tk-8.4-lastevent.patch, +tk-8.4.18-r1.ebuild, tk-8.4.19.ebuild:
  adding patch 8.4-lastevent, fixes bug #225999

And if we rebuild tk-8.4.19 to include that patch, everything is fine.  So for
me, it was fixed a day after I installed the version of tk which fails.  For
me, this is fixed; I'll leave it to you to close in case there is something
else lurking in the background.

I guess this argues that when a very small change fixes something, a version
bump is a good idea.

------- Comment #5 From Ferris McCormick 2008-11-16 00:10:07 0000 ------- 
Oh, there is a misprint in the ebuild for tk-8.4.19 --- you have

>=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.3

but you need:
>=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.13

------- Comment #6 From Federico Ferri 2008-11-16 09:01:26 0000 ------- 
ok, so you installed tk-8.4.19 in the meanwhile of two commits. nice timing! ;)

I rev bumped the ebuild, in order to eliminate this problem, and I corrected
the typo.

I'll mark this bug as a duplicate of bug #225999 just for tracking purposes.

thank you

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225999 ***