My notes to self for installing gEDA from the cvs repo on Fedora 7: (thanks to Peter & Ben for helping me out for FC5 & 6)
Even though Fedora 7 came with gettext 0.16.1, parts were missing, so I had to build it from the tar file at http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gettext/ Note that gettext installs aclocal files to /usr/local/share, so export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal" is necessary Make sure the following have been installed: yum install compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-34-c++ yum install guile guile-devel yum install tetex tetex-latex texi2html texinfo-tex tetex-dvips tetex-doc Using the bash shell (do NOT use sudo for make install): $ su - # export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot # cvs login The password is 'guest' (without the quotes) # mkdir gedastuff # cd gedastuff # cvs co geda/gaf # export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal" # cd geda/gaf # vi Makefile Edit prefix?=/opt/geda # make # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/geda/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH # export PATH=/opt/geda/bin:${PATH} # export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/geda/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH # make install For pcb, $ su - # cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/pcb login Hit enter for password # cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/pcb co -P pcb # cd pcb # ./configure --prefix=/opt/geda --with-gui=gtk --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-doc # make # make install I made /etc/profile.d/geda.sh, and put in it: export PATH=/opt/geda/bin:${PATH} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/opt/geda/lib _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

