Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 April 2005 20:25, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>sys_lib_search_path_spec

This was enough of a clue that I was able to see that it
was using the .la file in /usr/local/lib, which did indeed
point it at the defunct directory.  So I grabbed the one
out of /root/kde3.3/lib and over wrote it as that one
correctly points to the correct location in /root/kdce3.3/lib.

Sidebar here:  Would it not make more sense to open
ldconfig.cache and see where it is?  In a properly maintained
system, it knows where everything is.

Unforch, that only allowed it to get to the next hangup, from
exactly the same error as before.

So, I went thru the /usr/local/lib dir, checking .la files and
replaceing any that still had the bad link path with those from
/root/kde3.3/lib which did have the correct 'dependency list' paths.

Then wiped the install dir clean and started over.  And it looks
like libtool is now working, I've seen it go by in the stdout many
times now.  And now I see /usr/bin/install scrolling by at about
10^33rd fenceposts/hour so I think I'm on my way.  And yes, one
could, without stretching the truth too far, call this system hosed.
Funny thing though, its getting (except for things like this) plumb
stable.  I play with kernels constantly, and I must say that if
you aren't running 2.6.12-rc1, your rocket has a plugged fuel
injector.  Most everything Just Works(TM).  I'm not running it
at the moment, playing with one of Ingo Molnars realtime-preempt
patches on top of 2.6.12-rc1.  Everything works but my pcHDTV-3000
card.  It seems to lose dma priviledges or something.

Silly (probably) Q:  Is there an html build something step by step
tutorial buried in this someplace that would give a rank beginner
at EDA a helping hand?  I can read chip docs, and wirewrap fairly
complex stuff which worked when I got done but that was 20 years
back down in the pile of old calendars too, so I need a helping
hand at 'larnin the lingo'.  Is there such a thing as a good starter
book available at Borders or such that covers enough of this to be
usefull?

Thanks Stuart

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