On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:19:42 +0300, Justas Poderys <[email protected]> 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.
Hi Justas, This issue is already clearly explained in gaf's top-level README file: > Troubleshooting dependencies > ---------------------------- > > "I've installed the `libfoo' library, but `./configure' isn't > picking it up!" > > Many modern operating system distributions split a library into two > packages: > > 1. a `libfoo' package, which contains the files necessary to > *run* programs which use `libfoo'. > > 2. a `libfoo-dev' or `libfoo-devel' package, which contains the files > necessary to *compile* programs which use `libfoo'. > > If you're having problems, make sure that you have all of the > necessary `dev' or `devel' packages installed. As the person who wrote almost all of the current gaf build system, I'm not keen on adding code to detect a particular distribution of a particular operating system for the sole purpose of printing a message that will only be useful to people who can't or won't read a README file. Nevertheless, thank you for taking the time to create a patch and send it in! :-) Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett <[email protected]> Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
