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

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:49 -0700, Dethe Elza wrote:
> 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?

My set of the autotools doesn't look for an install.sh, just install-sh.
That file is symlinked in by automake
from /usr/share/automake-1.9/install-sh on my Debian box.

> 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.

Note that there is a difference between needing Fink to build the
configure scripts, and needing it to actually build or run VPython.
Rebuilding the configure scripts is something that only a developer will
do, and even then only rarely.

I suspect that after you change configure.ac to separately test for
*-apple-darwin* and pull in the OSX-specific files, you won't have to
rebuild the configure scripts again.

>   I think it's do-able, if I can  
> just get through the rather Byzantine configuation.

-Jonathan