gEDA-user: Fwd: Dumb newby installation problem

[Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@planet.nl>]

> I've been trying to install gEDA/gaf under Mandrake Linux 9.0 for some 
> time now. I've downloaded the source files by anonymous CVS, and installed 
> them in /usr/local/src/gEDA,  and edited line 13 of the Makefile to
>
> DIR_PREFIX=/usr/local/src/gEDA/geda/devel
>
> After downloading and installing gtk and glib, "make xinstall" seemed to 
> work, once. Following it with "make install" didn't work.
>
> I then down-loaded all the .tar.gz files (geda, geda-gschem, 
> geda-gsymcheck, guile etc) into /usr/local/src/gEDA/geda/devel after which 
> running "make xinstall" seemed to work fine.
>
> Trying to run "make install" as the next stage of the process produced the 
> following sequence.
>
> (cd libgeda: ./configure ---prefix=/root/geda)
> loading cache ./configure cache
> .configure: line 534: syntax error near unexpected token 'noweb/s_basic.nw'
> .configure: line 534: 'AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(noweb/s_basic.nw)
> make: *** [libgeda/config.h]
>
> I went off and found noweb, downloaded it - as .rpm files - with icon2, 
> and installed both. Didn't make any difference.
>
> /usr/local/src/gEDA/geda/devel/libgeda/noweb/s_basic.nw
>
> exists, but trying to run noweb/s_basic.nw in the 
> /usr/local/src/gEDA/geda/devel/libgeda/noweb directory doesn't work, 
> despite the advice you find if you look inside  's_basic.nw' with vi.
>
> I think I've got as far as I'm going to get with my limited grasp of Linux 
> - any advice gratefully received.
>
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> Bill Sloman, Nijmegen