> From: Tim Golden <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: teardrop compiling installation,
> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:50 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:12 -0500, vinny wrote: > > > > Do you really need these teardrops? > > > > If you do not know much about Unix like operating systems and building > > software from sources, then it may be better to start with gEDA/PCB > > packages shipped with distributions (without teardrops). > > > > Nahh!!! Go for it Stefan! > > Building linux packages has become very standardized and in learning to > build gEDA you'll learn general principles rather than throw away type > of information. > 1. Download the source > 1.5 unzip source > 2. ./configure > 2.5 if missing libraries install them and return to 2. patiently > 3. make > 3.5 su > 4. make install > 5. ldconfig > Well, it's probably not quite that easy, but if things go well it is > nearly that easy. This applies to nearly every source code package > implementation due to standardization. > > disclaimer: this is only a general note and I have no experience with > the teardrop plugin, and only just recently installed gEDA from source. > > - Tim > Thanks for some step by step explanation, I will try as soon as I finished the present project. I will need to uninstall the present pcb installation which I installed from the one that comes with distributions. Thank you again to all. Vinny _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

