Re: [Visualpython-users] success on OS X!

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>From: "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <jbr...@ea...>
>
>> - After installing Fink, Gtk+, and Python22, make sure the Fink packages 
>> autoconf2.5, automake, automake1.6, numeric, and pkgconfig are installed 
>> too. 
>
>You shouldn't need Autoconf or Automake for visual unless you are
>regenerating aclocal.m4, Makefile.in (in any directory except cvisual)
>or configure.  Did you need to do that?  The current scripts are
>generated with autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.  Did you need these
>programs for some other purpose?
>
You've officially gone over my head. :-) All I know is that "make" wouldn't run 
to completion for me until these packages were installed. However, I've only 
done all of this on my iBook. Tonight I will repeat it all on my iMac and I'll try to 
reproduce my results. 

>A note about CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS.  Autoconf automatically sets both of these
>variables to "-O2 -g" unless they are already set in the environment. 
>So, with these settings, just about any Autoconf-based installation
>procedure will build without optimization or debugging symbols.  So, you
>will probably want to `setenv CFLAGS "-I/sw/include -O2"` (note the
>double quotes) at least, and if you want to provide more useful
>bugreports, add -g as well.
>
Noted. I'll do this on my iMac.

Cheers,
Joe Heafner - Instructional Astronomy and Physics