Did you build this with a script? I would like to make a version for OS X ppc and intel platforms
Steve On Feb 16, 2008 1:21 PM, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ales -- > > I just downloaded and ran your binary on my crufty SuSE9.1 machine. > It worked great! Awesome work! > > Install was very easy. One minor snag: The first time I ran it, I > tried to intall into /usr/local/gedasuite. That didn't work since I > wasn't installing as root. Then I created the directory > /usr/local/gedasuite as root, and re-ran the installer. This time it > complained that /usr/local/gedasuite already existed, and asked me to > delete the directory. So I deleted it and re-ran the installer as > root. It worked this time. > > I'm not sure what one could do to change this. Maybe check to see if > the install directory is a system directory and writable, and if not, > then tell the user to become root and re-run the installer? It's a > minor point in any event. > > A second strange thing: When I first fired up the program, I did > this: > > 1. Sit in my $HOME directory. > > 2. type /usr/local/gedasuite/bin/gschem at the command line. > > 3. Wait a looooooooooong time while nothing happened. At least 10 > seconds, maybe more. At first I heard the disk do a seek, but that > stopped after a while, and then nothing happened. I was not running > top, so I don't know what the computer was doing...... > > 4. <ctrl>-C the (non-running) program > > 5. cd /usr/local/gedasuite/bin/ > > 6. type ./gschem at the command line. > > 7. This time, gschem started up within 3 to 5 seconds. > > 8. Later, I went back to $HOME, and re-ran geda by typing > /usr/local/gedasuite/bin/geda, and it started fine. > > I don't know why it took so long the first time around. Did it have > to do with starting up a DBUS daemon, or something like that? If so, > then we'll need to put something about it into the notes..... > > > * Right now, xgsch2pcb is also linked to the executable name "geda". > > Yay! That's the right choice! Good thinking! > > > * The simulation programs will be added later if I can solve some > > fundamental install and runtime issues. > > Good idea. > > Once you've shaken out any install bugs, how about posting a notice to > sci.electronics.cad? If you don't want to do the posting, I can write > up a quick blurb and release it....... > > One final thought: This is for the Peters too... I wonder if we > should put the project HOWTOs into a directory distributed with the > suite, and then put a "help" button into xgsch2pcb alongside the other > buttons which would open one of the introductory HOWTOs in some kind > of viewer. Also, we need to develop some type of HOWTO explaining how > to start a project using xgsch2pcb, since there are several steps > required.... > > Thanks for the new gEDA Suite! > > Stuart > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
