> >> I downloaded the latest sources from=20 > >> http://www.geda.seul.org/download.html > >> And I built them. > >> > >> And I confirmed the timestamp on the executables and that I am running = > >> the right executable. > >> > >> But the "help/about" menu says the version is 20040111. > >> > >> So am I doing something wrong? > > > > Yes, mine says 20050814. Check your $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and so on. > > > > Paths were all fine. There is no older version on this system, it is a > newly built box. > > It seems I didn't have autoconf or automake or libtools installed. Not sure > if they are needed or not.
You don't need those unless you are checking stuff out of CVS, or are a developer. > Also got the latest configure "guess" updates. > This is on ubuntu 5.10. There is no convenient way to get a nice dev > environment in ubuntu. You have to separately install gcc, and g++ and g77, > and flex and bison, and on and on. That stinks! > Blew everything away and rebuilt it starting at same tarballs. Now I have > the correct string in "help/about" . > But the code is the same as before, same menus, same dialogs, no noticeable > difference. > > So it looks like some of the "configure" steps were quietly failing, leaving > an old version number. Weird! Stuart
