On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Justas Poderys wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm using Ubuntu and needed to update geda-gaf, as version in repository > is older than latest released. Since RFTM'ing is not my strongest side, > spent an hour or so wondering why configure would fail, even though I > installed guile-1.8 package. Now it seems trivial that I needed > guile-1.8-dev. I made a small patch to configure script, that check if > user is using debian or its' derivative and hint that user might need > guile dev.
configure is an auto-generated file, so you can't patch it like that. You would need to add a rule in configure.ac. Actually, configure.ac pulls in loads of custom macros from the m4 directory. The file you'd want to patch is probably m4/geda-guile.m4 I'm of mixed feelings about the idea though.. are we going to fix up every potential configure failure with a list of Debian, Fedora, ... package names to install? I think we need to try to be consistent, and adding suggestions for every possible point of failure could be a lot of work. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
