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Patch #753845: Update README for Redhat 9 Tkinter compile with USC-4.
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@@ -318,8 +318,12 @@ Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
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module now needs the -lcrypt option. The setup.py script
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takes care of this automatically.
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Red Hat Linux: There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python
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1.5.2 on most Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools
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Red Hat Linux: Red Hat 9 built Python2.2 in UCS-4 mode and hacked
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Tcl to support it. To compile Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will
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need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag to ./configure.
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There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python
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1.5.2 on most older Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools
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require this version. Python 2.1.x may be installed as
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/usr/bin/python2. The Makefile installs Python as
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/usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence

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