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

Many thanks! I should put this on the VPython site.

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cole" <kj...@gr...>
To: <vis...@li...>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: [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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