Hi all,
I am trying to build gEDA from CVS. I do have really hard time to travel thru
the linux flavors jungle, I have installed five linux versions simultaneously
only to be able to find one useful for gEDA. Only Ubuntu was friendly enough
for me, still I could not overcome a few problems. I am not familiar with linux
or gEDA but I am committed to learn. Please help me to figure out what I am
doing wrong. Looks like the instruction from the official gEDA site are for
standard? linux distro. On my Ubuntu Dapper (AMD K7 kernel with AMD64
processor) it is not possible to make use of a normal export instruction.
Only with help from:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=141647
sudo gedit /root/bashrc (added lines):
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/work/programs/gEDA/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=/home/work/programs/gEDA/bin:${PATH}
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/work/programs/gEDA/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
I was able to set somehow the PATH variables. I suspected this is what I was
missing according to - Set shell variables. *VERY IMPORTANT* from the README
file. Still my adventure of:
$time { make install; }
is ending with:
...
Processing s_undo.texi ...
Processing s_toplevel.texi ...
Processing u_basic.texi ...
cd . \
&& makeinfo `echo libgedadoc.texi | sed 's,.*/,,'`
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/docs'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /home/work/programs/gEDA/info
mkdir /home/work/programs/gEDA/info
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./libgedadoc.info
/home/work/programs/gEDA/info/libgedadoc.info
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/docs'
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/docs'
Making install in share
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/share'
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/share'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /home/work/programs/gEDA/share/gEDA
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./prolog.ps
/home/work/programs/gEDA/share/gEDA/prolog.ps
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/share'
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda/share'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda'
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda'
cd . && autoheader
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda'
cd . \
&& CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=[config.h] \
/bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating [config.h]
config.status: error: cannot find input file: [config.h].in
make[2]: *** [stamp-h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/backups/src/electro/geda/sources/geda/devel/libgeda'
make: *** [libgeda_install] Error 2
real 2m44.956s
user 1m11.153s
sys 0m22.148s
Please help me here, I have no clue at all what is wrong. I tried to satisfy
somehow the endless dependencies with:
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-0
libpango1.0-dev groff \
guile-1.6 guile-1.6-dev libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev gcc g++ gcc make
build-essential \
autoconf automake libtool gettext tetex-extra tetex-base tetex-doc
latex2html texinfo \
libwxgtk2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-dev python-wxgtk2.6 libxaw7 libxaw7-dev
xaw3dg xaw3dg-dev \
libxaw-headers libxpm-dev python-wxversion wx2.6-headers gperf flex
bison tcl8.4 tcl8.4-dev \
libdirectfb-0.9-22 libdirectfb-dev libgtk+2.0-directfb-dev
libgtk+2.0-directfb0 gawk \
libgtk+2.0-directfb0 libgtk+2.0-directfb-dev libglade2-dev
In addition, with help from Linux From Scratch I installed some more
packages:
# install readline
# /usr/local/include/readline/readline.h or /usr/include/readline/readline.h
cd /home/backups/src/linux
#wget -c ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-5.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd /home/backups/src/linux
sudo rm -rf ./readline-5.1
# install diffutils
cd /home/backups/src/linux
tar -xzf diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz
cd diffutils-2.8.1
patch -Np1 -i ../diffutils-2.8.1-i18n-1.patch
touch man/diff.1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd /home/backups/src/linux
rm -rf ./diffutils-2.8.1
# install diffutils END
glibc-2.3.6 (too long to paste the content here, if anyone is interested just
ask)
Some packages I choose here are not required at all but I do not have the
knowledge to fine tune this. I spend quite a few nights and weekends with
trials and errors to get here. Anyway, I was able to install the gEDA from
geda-install-20060124.iso image with no problems. I had no time yet to verify
that my CD installation is working with the twisted export for PATH.
To avoid this painful update process and to stretch my lifespan, could somebody
out there implement some sort of live update mouse click shortcut for a quick
on-line update for the whole gEDA package at once?
And another request. I would like to avoid this unbelievable mess of PATH. It
will be possible to replace this mechanism with some sort of *ini or *cfg file
inside of gEDA distro (or any other software trick) where the main interface
program to look for any required PATH, instead of relaying on the myth of
standard linux?
Thanks,
Adrian Nania
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