On Thursday 30 December 2004 01:14 pm, Graham Seaman wrote: > Better keep well away from gentoo :-)
I run gentoo on all of my systems. Search for 'gEDA' on the gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/ and this is the first thing you see: "can't compile sci-electronics/geda-20040111-r1" Very outdated, and they can't get it to compile. gEDA fails to emerge [gentoo word for install] is yet an other thread. For people that like packages, they must be kept up to date or they are worse than than not having them. Gentoo builds every thing from source but even it has problems guilding gEDA on some systems. Seems it is not only an issue of what libraries the system has but what compiler version was used to compile them, and gEDA. Here is my own install purgatory that I'm going through at this moment: I checked out gEDA CVS on Dec/23 and built gEDA by doing make reconfig make config make install all went well, other than my latex2html was broken, not really a gEDA issue. Today, Dec/30, I checkout CVS did make reconfig make config make install and it complains that my libgeda is to old. Giving a July date. :-( Ok, find that in /usr/local/lib and kill it, even tho I told the top level make file to use --prefix=/opt/gEDA. I never want things in /usr/local on my system, makes it impossible to maintain different version at the same time. Do make reconfig make config make install yet again. Run gschem... ARGH! Where is PNG? Download gdlibgeda, as it was not in CVS, at least that I found. ./configure ... Then build libgeda. Did it find gdlibgeda? Yes. make install Run gschem... #)*$#_$*#* Why is there icons and no menu bar... Time for a time out before I format my hard disk...
