Re: gEDA-user: teardrop compiling installation

[vinny <vonelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Tim Golden <timgolden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: teardrop compiling installation,

> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:50 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:12 -0500, vinny wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
>    1. Download the source 
>    1.5 unzip source
>    2. ./configure 
>    2.5 if missing libraries install them and return to 2. patiently
>    3. make 
>    3.5 su
>    4. make install 
>    5. ldconfig
> Well, it's probably not quite that easy, but if things go well it is
> nearly that easy. This applies to nearly every source code package
> implementation due to standardization.
> 
> disclaimer: this is only a general note and I have no experience with
> the teardrop plugin, and only just recently installed gEDA from source.
> 
>  - Tim
> 
Thanks for some step by step explanation, I will try as soon as I
finished the present project. I will need to uninstall the present pcb
installation which I installed from the one that comes with
distributions. Thank you again to all.

Vinny 




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