Re: [Visualpython-users] Aqua port - stumped by autoconf

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

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks!  That got me one step further.  Now it is looking for  
install.sh, which I don't see in the CVS tree.  Where do I find this?

I'm sure it would be easier if I installed Fink, but part of the  
justification for this whole exercise is that I don't want to a)  
install Fink, or b) run X, just for this one application.  Everything  
else I use works just fine without Fink or X, so I'd like to use  
VPython the same way, if possible.  I think it's do-able, if I can  
just get through the rather Byzantine configuation.

Thanks again.

--Dethe

On 19-Oct-05, at 5:17 AM, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:47 -0700, Dethe Elza wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've finally gotten some time to look at porting VPython to OS X
>> Aqua.
>>
>
> Excellent!
>
>
>>   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?
>>
>
> Generating the configure script is much more difficult than actually
> running it, since it is designed to determine settings on every  
> platform
> that Visual can run on.  Therefore, you actually do need GTK installed
> (or at least its .m4 files).
>
> I face a similar problem when rebuilding configure using MinGW on
> Windows.  To work around it, I have a copy of gtk.m4 and pkg.m4 in
> VPython's CVS.  Look under vpython/share/aclocal.  Copy those files to
> $prefix/share/aclocal.  You will probably have an easier time getting
> autoconf, automake, and libtool to work if you use the packages in  
> Fink.
> In that case, you will want to copy the .m4 files
> into /sw/share/aclocal, but only if they are not already included in
> Fink's GTK 1.2 development package.
>
>
>>   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)
>>
>
> What is the current version of automake and autoconf on your system?
>
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I've given a few guesses above, but also see the file autogen.sh in  
> the
> top-level of VPython's source tree (maybe only in CVS).  It is what I
> use to sequence the operation of the autotools when building the
> configure scripts themselves.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
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