Re: [Visualpython-users] finally success...but...

[Jonathan B. <jdb...@un...>]

Sorry, I was thinking bash shell rather than C-shell.  This worked fine
under tcsh:
setenv CPPFLAGS -I/sw/include
./configure --prefix=/sw
make
without having to explicitly change the header files.

Just changing CFLAGS doesn't neccesarily help you here, since this is a C++
program and is not really all that sensitive to CFLAGS.  CXXFLAGS ( C++
flags) and CPPFLAGS (C pre-processor flags) are the real keys for this
package.

Regarding the help browser, there is a trigger that we can change in our
idle_VPython for the
webbrowser documentation.  Try changing the value of help_url in
idle_VPython/EditorWindow.py to
/sw/lib/python2.2/site-packages/visual/docs/index.py.  But, that will
probably not be enough.  idle_VPython opens a webbrowser using the built-in
module "webbrowser".   In webbrowser.py there is a list of available
browsers listed under the section commented as "Platform support for Unix"
and you can probably add support for the new browser that way.
The Python-MAC SIG might have some better advice though.

-Jonathan Brandmeyer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Heafner" <hea...@vn...>
To: <jbr...@us...>
Cc: <vis...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: [Visualpython-users] finally success...but...


> On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 20:31 US/Eastern, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
>
> > Try running configure like this: "CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include ./configure
> > --prefix=/sw"
>
> ...this didn't work. The shell interpreted CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include as a
> command. So, I tried using setenv as described at
>
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#compile-myself
>
> but this didn't work either, so I zapped the environment variables.
> Note, however, that I only set the CFLAGS environment variable and not
> the others.
>
> So, I finally resorted to hard coding the locations of the "lost"
> header files. Here are the changes I made:
>
> in ~/visual-2.1.1/cvisual/xgl.h, I changed lines 8,9,and 10 to read
>       8  #include </sw/include/gtk-1.2/gdk/gdk.h>
>       9  #include </sw/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h>
>      10  #include </sw/include/gtkgl/gtkglarea.h>
>
> in /sw/include/gtkgl/gtkglarea.h, I changed line 24 to read
>      24  #include </sw/include/gtkgl/gdkgl.h>
>
> I then issued "make" and got a clean build...FINALLY!
>
> Now, the remaining issue that bothers me is that in IDLE, when I press
> F1 for help I get an error message telling me there's no default
> browser. I'm using Safari 1.0. There must be a way to make the help
> come up in the system's default browser (in my case, Safari).
>
> Cheers,
> Joe Heafner
>
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