Re: gEDA-user: geda vs. SPARC

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:20:31PM +0200, Albert Lederer wrote:
 
> Compiling Geda on Solaris can be a nightmare, especially when you're 
> trying to find all the package dependencies.  Linux systems take a lot 
> of packages for granted, and they may not be present on Solaris systems. 
 
 
> Maybe we Solaris folk should get together and write a little howto, 
> including required packages, libraries, path issues, etc. 
> 
 
Well, one approach is to use NetBSD's pkgsrc under solaris.  I've 
done that on a solaris9 box and it builds geda quite nicely and easily
with all the dependencies too!  http://www.pkgsrc.org

-Dan
 

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