[Visualpython-users] vpython5 on ubuntu 9.4 problems with installation

[Lenica R. <Lr...@ia...>]

Hello all,

I'm having trouble building vpython 5 on ubuntu 9.4. I had it up and 
running on 8.10, but for some reason it is unwilling to compile on the 
newer version. I am using python version 2.6.2 and gcc compiler version 
4.3, and I'm pretty sure I installed all the packages mentioned in the 
INSTALL.txt and I even tried changing to the newest threadpool version 
with no success. The error message I get in build.log is the following 
(attatched you can see the whole log file):


In file included from /usr/include/boost/python/exception_translator.hpp:12,
from ../../visual-5.03_candidate/src/python/cvisualmodule.cpp:11:
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:34: error: 
expected nested-name-specifier before ‘add_reference’
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:34: error: 
expected ‘;’ before ‘<’ token
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp: In member 
function ‘bool boost::python::detail::translate_exception<ExceptionType, 
Translate>::operator()(const boost::python::detail::exception_handler&, 
const boost::function0<void>&, typename 
boost::call_traits<Translate>::param_type) const’:
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
expected type-specifier before ‘exception_cref’
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
expected `)' before ‘e’
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
expected `{' before ‘e’
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: ‘e’ 
was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp:56: error: 
expected `;' before ‘)’ token



It almost looks like a compiler problem?
I tried setting the option g++ -V 3.4 in the makefile but this had no 
effect.
the output of configure is the following:



$ ../visual-5.03_candidate/configure --prefix /usr/local
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for f77... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for f90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared 
libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared 
libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared 
libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
(cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into 
programs... immediate
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for some Win32 platform... no
checking for some Mac OSX platform... no
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.2... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.6
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... 
${prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... 
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
checking for array in python module numpy... yes
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTKGLEXTMM... yes
checking for GLIBMM... yes
checking for PANGOMM... yes
checking for LIBGLADEMM... yes
checking for PANGOFT2... yes
checking for FREETYPE2... yes
checking for GTK... yes
checking for GTHREAD... yes
checking where to install documentation... 
${prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual/docs
checking whether to install html documentation... yes
checking where to install example programs... 
${prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual/examples
checking whether to install example programs... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating site-packages/visual/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating bin/vpython
config.status: creating include/config.h
config.status: include/config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands


it would be great if I could get this working! Thanks in advance for any 
help on this.

cheers

Lenica