Re: gEDA-user: gedagaf runs on RH8

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Hi 00

I'm very happy to hear that gEDA is making its way into commercial
enterprises. 

BTW: The whole point behind the CD with the install wizard is to make
it easy to do commercial installs of gEDA.  The install wizard takes
care of the whole "configure && make && make install" dance for all of
the programs in the gEDA Suite.  The install wizard is a "frozen"
Python program; freezing Python programs is a very
platform-independent way to distribute executables.  Unfortunately, I
built it on a system which requires a more modern version of glibc.so
than is present on RH8.

Another possibility -- which works for gEDA/gaf -- is to install using
the setup utility which comes bundled with the pacakge.  I believe you
can do "make xinstall", and it will do everything for you.

Stuart

> 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:29:36 -0500 (EST), Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes, of course gEDA/gaf compiles & runs on RH8. 
> 
> great ...  this was for me ___the___most___important___aspect___.
> I am running a small network of 14 RH8 workstations in our LAB. We are
> using them to control GPIB instruments through scripting. Slowly, but
> surely, I am converting technicians and IC designers from MS WINDOWS
> (98,2K,XP) to Linux. I've spent last 4 years to come to the point to
> run small LAN with local authentication in a LAB. RH8 works "just
> fine[TM]".
> The major obstacle was the mentality of the users using the following
> argument : UNIX is way to complicated and non user friendly.
> We passed that point. They are happy running GPIB instruments in the
> lab from their cubicles using cygwin/X on their MS XP desktops.
> Now, I want to show to the users that they can start using Linux to
> design PCB as well and save money for licensing (EAGLE, PROTEL). And,
> of course, having schematic/PCB software on ALL 14  boxes without
> restrictions.
> I do not want to upgrade all boxes to RH9 and/or above. Yet.
> It is simply way too much work, which I am not paid for. I am paid for
> IC design. I've installed and configured a lot of packages over the
> past 3 years for RH8.
> In other words, __way__too__much__work (aka pain) to reconfigure LAN
> and boxes to something newer. I hope that gEDA/gaf + PCB will remain
> backward compatible in the future.
> 
> >What won't run on RH8
> > is the GUI-based *Install Wizard* which lives on the CD ROM
> > distribution.  
> 
>   OK... I see..  thanks for the clarification
> 
> That README pertains to the procedure of downloading
> > the .sio, burning it to a CD, and then running the Install Wizard to
> > *automatically* build and install gEDA.
> 
>    OK  thanks for the info
> 
> Regards
> 
> Igor
> 
> P.S. : I am working for a semiconductor company in Silicon Valley with
> +9000 employees worldwide
>