[Visualpython-users] Aqua port - stumped by autoconf

[Dethe E. <de...@li...>]

Hi folks,

I've finally gotten some time to look at porting VPython to OS X  
Aqua.  I've got Boost.python installed, and stubbed in the platmac.[h| 
cpp], and the osxgl.[h|cpp], but I'm having no luck getting a working  
configure file to compile it.  When I run autoconf I get a configure  
file, but running aclocal tells me:

aclocal: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' required but not defined

But GTK shouldn't be required, so how do I turn that off?  I can  
delete the offending line from acinclude.m4, but that still leaves me  
with my next problem, which is that when I run the resulting  
configure script it complains that in the line:

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE( visual, 3.2.3)

that the symbol "visual" is unknown.

I'm not an avid user of autoconf or even configure, and after poking  
around in it for a day or so, I'm not any more enlightened. Can  
anyone tell me what I'm doing that's stupid and hosing the build?

--Dethe

This [the adoption of open source software] isn't just my idea, or  
Brazil's idea. It's the idea of our time. The complexity of our times  
demands it." --Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Minister of Culture