macOS Monterey 16" M1 Pro _gdbm and _tkinter not found

[Sr-316]

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I followed the documentation to configure and build repo but got this issue:

configure: creating Modules/Setup.local
configure: creating Makefile
asset-overflow@MontereyJack:~/myRepos/cpython
main ✔ $ make -s -j2
Note: Deepfreeze may have added some global objects,
so run 'make regen-global-objects' if necessary.
CC='gcc' LDSHARED='gcc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup ' OPT='-g -Og -Wall' ./python.exe -E ./setup.py -q build
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/lib/termcap'

Python build finished successfully!
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_gdbm _tkinter
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.

renaming build/scripts-3.12/pydoc3 to build/scripts-3.12/pydoc3.12
renaming build/scripts-3.12/idle3 to build/scripts-3.12/idle3.12
renaming build/scripts-3.12/2to3 to build/scripts-3.12/2to3-3.12

I had already read through and installed openssl gdbm etc.. exactly per documentation and also added the necessary flags per macOS instructions for ./configure --with-pydebug --with-openssl=$(brew --prefix openssl)

forgive me if there's anything here that might be a little off (in the last sentence/statement) since I didn't copy/paste it, but I even went back over twice after "make clean" and retry configure and make -s -j2

[erlend-aasland]

You can tell configure where to find the dependencies either by modifying PKG_CONFIG_PATH, or by using the following environment variables:

$ ./configure --help | grep -i "\(tcl\|gdbm\).*flags"
  TCLTK_CFLAGS
  TCLTK_LIBS  linker flags for TCLTK, overriding pkg-config
  GDBM_CFLAGS C compiler flags for gdbm
  GDBM_LIBS   additional linker flags for gdbm

For example, In my build script, I modify PKG_CONFIG_PATH by adding $(brew --prefix tcl-tk)/lib/pkgconfig.

[zware]

See also gh-80086.

[erlend-aasland]

See also gh-80086.

Yes, I suggest closing this¹ in favour of gh-80086.

Footnotes

1. "close as not planned" ↩