Re: gEDA-user: teardrop compiling installation,

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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






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