sorry here:
i just tried this again and it went through ok - i'm wondering if i pulled the files as you were editing them -
but this beside the point because gemvertexbuffer doesn't create in pd (red dash)
so now i'm trying to build latest gem from source but now get this during ./autogen.sh
glibtoolize: copying file `../../m4/ltoptions.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `../../m4/ltsugar.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `../../m4/ltversion.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `../../m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
glibtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to
configure.ac and
glibtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure:15171: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_APPENDTOVAR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
HOST-OS : Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
HOST-KERNEL:
Darwin J-Ks-MacBook-Pro-15.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0:
Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_