[Visualpython-users] visual-2.1.1 configure gives spurious error; other packages needed

[Sanjoy M. <sa...@mr...>]

This is using a Debian 3.0 system, Pentium, kernel 2.4.20.

I had to comment out lines 9059-9061 in the configure script from
visual-2.1.1 (visual-2.1.1-20030709.tar.gz), so that they now look like:

#    { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: gtkglarea is required on Unix-like systems" >&5
#echo "$as_me: error: gtkglarea is required on Unix-like systems" >&2;}
#   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }

Without those 3 lines commented out, the configure script exits
complaining that gtkglarea is not there, even though I had already
installed it (apt-get install gtkglarea5-dev).

The same test shows up at line 9141, where I think it belongs (it's
after the code to test whether gtkglarea works), whereas the lines I
commented out are too early I think.

With the change, configure produced a makefile, but an early compile
failed because it couldn't locate gl.h which i fixed by installing
xlibmesa-dev (apt-get install xlibmesa-dev).

Now it's compiling happily.

It runs happily except that the convenience script /usr/bin/vpython
wouldn't run:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/visual/idle_VPython/idle.py", line 3, in ?
    import PyShell
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/visual/idle_VPython/PyShell.py", line 37, in ?
    from Tkinter import *
ImportError: No module named Tkinter

But installing the Debian package python2.2-tk solved the problem.

-Sanjoy