[Visualpython-users] Compiling on Ubuntu 10.04

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

I did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on a Windows machine and tried to 
compile Visual. I'm stuck in the configure phase and wonder whether 
someone can help me get unstuck.

gtkglextmm depends on gtkmm-2.4, which the configure machinery finds 
okay (/usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4) despite there being nothing in 
/usr/lib/pkgconfig about gtkmm-2.4.

gtkglextmm also depends on gdkglextmm, which in turn depends on 
gdkmm-2.4, which the configure machinery claims doesn't exist despite 
the existence of /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4 (as with gtkmm, there's nothing 
about gdkmm in /usr/lib/pkgconfig).

So my question is, how does the configure machinery find 
/usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4 but not /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4? And what should I 
do to compile the latest source?

Whoever packaged the working python-visual package for Ubuntu 10.04 
presumably didn't have my problem, or got around it somehow. When I 
examine the Ubuntu source used to create the package, I don't see any 
difference in the configure machinery.

Bruce

P.S. I should comment that some auxiliary files, such as the cactus 
photo in stonehenge.py, are missing from the Ubuntu package. That's my 
fault; I discovered only rather recently that the make procedure for 
Linux didn't include a couple of these auxiliary files.