[Visualpython-users] Small note to RH 8.0 users.

I had VPython working fine on my 7.2 system, but had a few minor 
glitches getting it going on the RH 8.0 Beta after returning from the 
Tech Circus last weekend.  In my case, the fixes (after downloading
the latest and greatest from vpython.org) were:

1) Make sure C++ is installed.  (As I recall, in 8.0, the package name 
   changes from "gcc-c++" to "gcc-cpp"  but I won't swear to it.  You
   can check w/ the command "rpm -q gcc-cpp" and/or "rpm -q gcc-c++"
   assuming you've installed it using RPM.)
2) Get the Mandrake Numeric RPM.  Pretty current, and it installs no 
   fuss, no muss.
3) As the documentation suggests, make sure you know where all your
   python stuff lives.  Red Hat doesn't put any of it in /usr/local.
   So rip "/local" out wherever you see it.  (I can't recall, but
   I think there was somewhere that I had to remove it that wasn't
   mentioned in the documentation.
4) In my case, I had to change cvisual/CXX/CXX_Config.h, as suggested
   by the README.htm in that directory -- though I was a bit surprised,
   considering the date mentioned:

   ================================================================
   Version 3 (June 18, 1999)

   1.  CXX compiles with EGCS snapshot 19990616. EGCS requires a
       standard library class random_access_iterator that is not 
       yet available in some other compilers (such as Windows VC6). 
       Therefore a new switch:

            STANDARD_LIBRARY_HAS_ITERATOR_TRAITS

       has been added to CXX_Config.h that you may need to toggle 
       if you get an error on the two lines that mention 
       random_access_iterator. The current definition is correct 
       for VC6 and EGCS-19990616.
   ================================================================

Hope this isn't redundant information (or worse yet, incorrect info.)
In any case, it wasn't working til I got all of the above done, and
now it seems fine.

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