Re: [Visualpython-users] problem compiling vpython on fedora 9

[Jaap S. <j....@hc...>]

Roger Fearick wrote:
> I've just built visual-4.beta26 on Fedora 9 (having upgraded from Fedora 5).
> 
> In order to do this I had to make a couple of changes:
> 
> src/util/errors.cpp:
>     add 
>        #include <cstdliv>   
>     below other #includes.
>

Maybe you mean #include <cstdlib> :)?

But this should be conditional because it is gcc-4.3 related.

> src/Makefile:
>     add -mt to the boost libraries at line 201  (in all POSIX-like systems), so have:
>    the line:
>            $(GTHREAD_LIBS) -lboost_python-mt -lboost_thread-mt)
> 

This one is more general. In Fedora 8 libboost_thread is missing too.

I can build my experimental spkg in Sage on Fedora 9:

real	2m21.192s
user	1m37.912s
sys	0m30.636s
Successfully installed vpython-4.beta26
Now cleaning up tmp files.
Making SAGE/Python scripts relocatable...
Making script relocatable
Finished installing vpython-4.beta26.spkg
[jaap@paix sage-3.0.4.alpha0]$


Thanks!

Jaap