Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac OS X issues update

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

As to the F1-help, that is probably an internal configuration problem
for the fink - installed python.  Maybe it expects Konqueror/Mozilla?

It seems mine also bombs out on Find and Replace, but with different
errors.

I'm working on a new makefile that works around a limitation of libtool
on OSX.  It seems that the libtool paradigm is that shared libraries
cannot link against static ones, EVEN IF THE PLATFORM SUPPORTS IT.  A
number of people have griped about this to the libtool dev team, to
which the responce seems to be, "Tough, that's our paradigm."  So, a
workaround is in progress.

Since more than one vendor uses an exclusively static libstdc++, libtool
is effectively broken on them for C++ work.  (MinGW on Win32, ppc-darwin
and some(all?) ppc-BSD are affected).

I still haven't knocked out the linker errors for the configure stage on
our OSX box.  The fink-users guys said it was an OS-version, X-version,
Dev-tools-version mismatch problem, but we haven't found the magic combo
yet.

IIRC, the new distro includes a Makefile.MaxOSX or somesuch in the
cvisual directory, which dates to the old installer.  If configure
passes on your system, you can try copying Makefile.MacOSX to Makefile
and running make in the cvisual directory.  I'm integrating portions of
that Makefile into a non-automake version of Makefile.in, so the basic
rules will hopefully work.  You may need to edit some configured
variables at the top of the file.

Final exams are coming over the next week, so I might not be able to
help troubleshoot right away.  By all means, fill out bug-reports and
patches to the Sourceforge project site, and I'll get to them soon.

Jonathan Brandmeyer

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 22:45, Joe Heafner wrote:
> I'm using the 2002-07-22 version of Visual under Mac OS 10.2.5. I've 
> installed Python 2.2.2 and necessary libs via Fink.
> 
> Inside IDLEfork, when I hit F1 to bring up help, I get the following:
>      raise Error("could not locate runnable browser")
> Error: could not locate runnable browser
> 
> When I try any of the Find or Replace functions from the Edit menu, 
> they all bomb. For example, Find gives the following:

--snipped traceback--
> 
> Replace gives:

--snipped traceback--

> 
> Still no luck compiling Visual.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joe Heafner
> 
> -----
> I don't have a Lexus, but I have a Mac. Same thing.
> 
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