[Vis5d-users] Re: OS X version?

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Robert Fovell wrote:
> >and also GLX support (I'm not sure if XFree 4.1 has GLX on OSX).  You have
> >to use a slightly patched version of Vis5d+ 1.1 to handle the lack of a
> >Fortran compiler:
> >
> >	http://jdj.mit.edu/download/vis5d+-1.1.1a1.tar.gz
> >
> >Otherwise, it works out of the box.
> 
> Hi Steven (and all):
> 
> Unfortunately, I could not get this to compile.  It seemed to go 
> through configure OK, but after I issued "make" this occurred:

Damn, that's what I get for posting a snapshot without testing it...I must
have screwed something up when making the package--the error you are doing
has nothing to do with MacOS X.  (I *do* have Vis5d+ installed on my MacOS
X machine, and all I had to do was patch it for the lack of a Fortran
compiler as I recall...it is just the snapshot which is messed up.)

I don't have time to try and make a new snapshot right now (the Vis5d+
sources are somewhat in flux at the moment), so the easiest thing to do is
to grab g77 for MacOS X (someone posted the URL earlier), and then use the
stock Vis5d+ 1.1, which I believe should work then.

> Somewhere else (perhaps on Source Forge), I saw something where you 
> said we need the latest version of autoconf installed first.  I 

This is only necessary if you want to be a developer.  autoconf/automake
are not needed to simply build the distributed code (they are needed to
create the distribution package).

Steven