On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:27 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008 04:01:46 Ian Chapman wrote: > > I am in the process of updating my gschem tools to 1.2.0 > > stable. ./configure reported guile not found so I got guile 1.6 from > > the ubuntu package manager. That was not accepted so I pulled in 1.8 > > that was okay but I was missing libgeda so I pulled that in and that > > took out guile 1.8 but left 1.6. now it reports > > I recommend using Guile 1.8 if possible. > > > checking for LIBGEDA... no > > configure: error: libgeda detection error: Requested 'libgeda >= > > 20070902' but version of libgeda is 20070626 > > You have to install a matching version of libgeda before installing any of > the > other gEDA tools. > > > So I pulled in the tarball libgeda 1.2.1 and ./configure was okay sudo > > make did a lot of work and seems okay and sudo make install too. > > > > Back to gschem1.2.0 sudo ./configure okay sudo make okay sudo make > > install okay. > > > > So lets give it a try. Applications Education GNU EDA schematic editor > > and NOTHING. After all that I have lost gschem. I guess it is > > somewhere on my disk. > > Did you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set properly? Sorry I did not do other than in the email. > > There is a known bug with several distributions where LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in > your login script is cleared from your X session by a setuid ssh-agent > wrapper. This makes it impossible to launch a $HOME prefixed gEDA from X > menus. And to make matters worse, terminal emulators are often installed > setuid because utempter requires it. > > (BTW: you shouldn't configure and make as root, only install): > > ./configure && make && sudo make install Good info thanks > > > Situation I'm not able to invoke gschem I guess I can always reinstall > > from Ubuntu package manager but I'm sure it's something silly that I've > > done. Any help greatly appreciated Ian. > > My recommendations as to how to set up your environment reliably are here: > > http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Jun-2007/msg00070.html You created a shell script file /etc/profile.d/geda.sh with the following text export PATH=/opt/geda/bin:${PATH} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/opt/geda/lib
For some strange reason my /etc does not have a profile.d directory to put it in? > > (instructions are for Fedora, but would probably work on Ubuntu). > > I also recommend using the top level Makefile available from the download > site > to install gEDA from source, rather than doing it manually. > > I hope some of this helps, Thanks for trying Peter but I think I'm way off the normal path I'll try getting the Ubuntu package manager to restore the origina. Regards Ian. > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
