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Solaris 9, python 2.1.3, find

Marc Petitmermet petitmermet at mat.ethz.ch
Fri Jul 26 08:18:28 EDT 2002 
I have a new SunBlade 100 with Solaris 9 and the latest patches for this 
OS installed. Now I'd like to install python 2.1.3 from source with 
tkinter enabled. Although I have correctly configured Modules/Setup to 
point to the correct location of the libraries and header files of 
tcl/tk, the compilation (./python setup.py build) stops with telling me 
that "libtk8.3.so: open failed: No such file or directory".

And now to the funny things: If I issue the command
  
  find /usr/local -name libtk8.3.so -print

the library cannot be found although it is located in 
/usr/local/tk8.3.4/lib/libtk8.3.so. If I do the following:

  find /usr/local -follow -name libtk8.3.so -print

the library is found. The man page for "find" states that follow is 
"Always true. Causes symbolic  links  to  be  followed". I think that 
this is not true because in may case /usr/local is a link to /p1/local 
on a second disk.

If "find" cannot find the libraries with the default options I wander if 
python can follow links. Of course I can enter "-L/p1/local/tk8.3.4/lib" 
in the Setup file but it really should also work with links.

Is this a python or Solaris 9 problem or did I something wrong with 
setting up the second disk? Any hints are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Marc
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