Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython compile problems - Mandrake 8.1

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, rod holland wrote:

> To list:
> 
> I will start with a general explanation and provide more details later if
> needed.
> 
> 1. I am compiling on Mandrake 8.1
> 2. Python 2.2, Idle-Fork, and Numeric are installed and functioning
> 3. Two problems arise with installing VPython
> 	a. the gtkglarea.rpm installation process (from the install script) says
> it is already installed and then spits out a long list of database 	errors

Here, I can't help, since I'm unfamiliar with rpm packages and the
associated errors.

> - then the script continues to compilation of cvisual.
> 	b. the compilation of cvisual always ends in a seg fault - usually in
> vthread.h.

Could you send more specific info -- perhaps the last few lines of a build
log?  

> 2) commenting out the offending lines in the include files that generate
> seg faults
> 
> Neither work.  Are there any suggestions?

What are the offending lines?  What process is segfaulting -- is it
Python, gcc, ld, ... ?

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    Andy Dougherty		dou...@la...
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042