How to build Tkinter as extension module?

[Guido Schimmels]

When I build python with tkinter support (Linux), the python interpreter
is linked to the tcl/tk shared libraries, thus making them a hard
dependency. That is unfortunate. A friend told me, Debian supports tkinter
via an autonomous extension module. I have looked at the Debian rules file
but wasn't able to discover the trick.

 

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

When I build python with tkinter support (Linux), the python interpreter
is linked to the tcl/tk shared libraries, thus making them a hard
dependency. That is unfortunate. A friend told me, Debian supports tkinter
via an autonomous extension module. I have looked at the Debian rules file
but wasn't able to discover the trick.

Don't add _tkinter in Modules/Setup, or uncomment the *shared* line
in Setup.

Regards,
Martin