Set TCL_LIBRARY before import _tkinter. Suggested by Kirill Simonov.

Fixes #418173 and #219960. 2.2.1 candidate.

diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/FixTk.py b/Lib/lib-tk/FixTk.py
index 029e7cd103ee379f0c910adb912e07aa5311861d..765e639bbb65f694182eb3a471dab1227d24a4a0 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/FixTk.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/FixTk.py
@@ -1,11 +1,32 @@
-import sys, os, _tkinter
+import sys, os
 
-ver = str(_tkinter.TCL_VERSION)
-for t in "tcl", "tk", "tix":
-    key = t.upper() + "_LIBRARY"
-    try:
-        v = os.environ[key]
-    except KeyError:
-        v = os.path.join(sys.prefix, "tcl", t+ver)
-        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(v, "tclIndex")):
-            os.environ[key] = v
+# Delay import _tkinter until we have set TCL_LIBRARY,
+# so that Tcl_FindExecutable has a chance to locate its
+# encoding directory.
+
+# Unfortunately, we cannot know the TCL_LIBRARY directory
+# if we don't know the tcl version, which we cannot find out
+# without import Tcl. Fortunately, Tcl will itself look in
+# <TCL_LIBRARY>\..\tcl<TCL_VERSION>, so anything close to
+# the real Tcl library will do.
+
+prefix = os.path.join(sys.prefix,"tcl")
+# if this does not exist, no further search is needed
+if os.path.exists(prefix):
+    if not os.environ.has_key("TCL_LIBRARY"):
+        for name in os.listdir(prefix):
+            if name.startswith("tcl"):
+                tcldir = os.path.join(prefix,name)
+                if os.path.isdir(tcldir):
+                    os.environ["TCL_LIBRARY"] = tcldir
+    # Now set the other variables accordingly
+    import _tkinter
+    ver = str(_tkinter.TCL_VERSION)
+    for t in "tk", "tix":
+        key = t.upper() + "_LIBRARY"
+        try:
+            v = os.environ[key]
+        except KeyError:
+            v = os.path.join(sys.prefix, "tcl", t+ver)
+            if os.path.exists(os.path.join(v, "tclIndex")):
+                os.environ[key] = v