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@@ -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