Re: gEDA-user: Building from sources

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> 
> On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:10, Daniel Wisehart wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 February 2006 05:59, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > > Finally, if all this fails, nuke your source directory, re-download
> > > geda-dev from CVS, and try again, starting from "make reconfig".  Make
> > > sure your PKG_CONFIG_PATH is clean before trying again.
> >
> > Running now...
> 
> I nuked the source directory; re-downloaded it; set the environment variables; 
> ran 'make reconfig'; then ran 'make config'.  That all completed just fine.  

Good.  That is the correct order.

> But when then run 'make install', it fails in the same place:
> 
> no -L -R'a_basic.c : *' ../noweb/a_basic.nw > ../src/a_basic.c
> /bin/sh: no: command not found

Hmmm, that stinks.  Is this while building libgeda, or while building gschem?

> If noweb is now required, does anyone know where I can find a tarbell?  The 
> link from the noweb CTAN website is broken, though the individual files in 
> the distribution are there.

Pointers available at:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/ 

There is an archive at the Harvard ftp site, apparently.

> Also, noweb should be added to the list of required programs, assuming it is.

Noweb is not a dependency.  A guile script should be automatically
invoked at build time to munge your .nw files into .c files if you
don't have the production version of noweb on your machine.  

What version of guile are you using?

Stuart