On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 15:09 -0500, Tim Golden wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:50 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:12 -0500, vinny wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thank you for stick with me, maybe some day I will be able to learn more > > > about Linux, I am try! But now I feel like all the information I > > > received do not help me. the information are incomplete I learned now > > > what "-I" is supposed do, but it does not explain how to use, the > > > compiler is looking for header file ".h" and I do not know were to find > > > them. > > > > > > > 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.
What I tried to express: For unexperienced people building the latest developer branch from sources is asking for trouble. And often it is not necessary because the Linux distribution has a package manager which makes installation of latest stable release easy. I think due the work of people like Chitlesh GOORAH, Wernber Hoch and many others support for gEDA/PCB and related tools is not too bad. When I started with Linux 10 years ago (SuSE) I tried to compile a small QT application which was not available from SuSE and I generated much noise in mailing list, because my Linux box was missing many development packages. (And I have to admit that I failed building a working gwave2 some weeks ago, so there seems to be not much progress in my skills. But smart Ivan Filgueiras solved the issue, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293397 ) Thanks Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
