Re: gEDA-user: Fedora 7 CVS install notes

["Craig Niederberger" <craignied@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Peter!!
Craig

On 6/5/07, Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007 22:59:31 Craig Niederberger wrote:
>
> > I made /etc/profile.d/geda.sh, and put in it:
> >
> > export PATH=/opt/geda/bin:${PATH}
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/opt/geda/lib
>
> Note that this will not work in your .profile.  If you wish to have a private
> copy of gEDA installed (say in $HOME/geda) you will need to follow the
> following steps (due to &£$^ing broken setgid programs in F7).
>
> 1) Edit /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession.  This is to work around ssh-agent trashing
> your environment (it's installed setgid).  See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164869 for a full
> discussion.
>
>    Add a line saying "SSH_AGENT=" before this line:
>
>    XCLIENTS_D=/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.d
>
> 2) yum install module-init-tools.  This will help you work around terminal
> programs trashing your environment (they're installed setgid).  See my bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243069.  Apparently,
> this is *not* a bug.  I call bullshit.
>
> 3) Create $HOME/.modules/geda, containing:
>
> #%Module 1.0
> # -*- Tcl -*-
> # Sets up Peter's opt directory
> #
>
> prepend-path    PATH            /home/peter/opt/bin
> prepend-path    LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/peter/opt/lib
> prepend-path    INFOPATH        /home/peter/opt/share/info
> prepend-path    PKG_CONFIG_PATH /home/peter/opt/lib/pkgconfig
>
>
> 4) Run /usr/share/Modules/bin/add.modules.  This will add some stuff to
> your .profile (or .bash_profile) and .bashrc.
>
> 5) echo module update >> .bashrc
>    This will restore your environment when you launch an interactive terminal.
> You may actually want to put it before any aliases/functions you've defined
> in your .bashrc.
>
> 6) Edit .profile (or .bash_profile) and make sure it looks something like the
> following:
>
> # Environment modules support
> MODULESBEGINENV=$HOME/.modules/beginenv
> export MODULESBEGINENV
>
> if [ -f /etc/profile.modules ]
> then
>         . /etc/profile.modules
> fi
>
> # put your own module loads here
> module use $HOME/.modules
> module load null geda
>
>
>
> Finished.  Note that modules can be useful for other things, for instance
> running multiple versions of geda installed to different places.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
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