Re: gEDA-user: installing geda-bundle on a Mac OS X 10.5.7

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 20, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Peter Gregson wrote:

>
>    I am having considerable difficulty installing geda-bundle on my
>    MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5.7.  I tried fink; it appeared to work
>    after much messing about caused by my version of fink not  
> updating the
>    table when it says that it has.   I have tried using Fink and
>    FinkCommander, without success.  Then I tried downloading from the
>    sources download page and running make.  That showed me that I  
> needed
>    guile.  After hours scanning the web, I found a forum where someone
>    had a similar problem and suggested installing gmp and guile from
>    [1]http://rudix.org.  I did that and the compile went further but
>    aborted with some _scm_xxxxx symbols undefined.  I gave up in
>    frustration.
>
>    Trying again tonight, I booted the computer and this time
>    FinkCommander told me that geda-bundle was not installed.  I tried
>    again to use FinkCommander to load the geda-bundle binary.  This  
> time,
>    it appeared to load properly as shown below.
>
>    Selecting previously deselected package geda-gschem.
>    Unpacking geda-gschem (from
>    .../geda-gschem_1%3a1.2.1-10_darwin-i386.deb) ...
>    Selecting previously deselected package geda-gsymcheck.
>    Unpacking geda-gsymcheck (from
>    .../geda-gsymcheck_1%3a1.2.1-11_darwin-i386.deb) ...
>    Selecting previously deselected package geda-bundle.
>    Unpacking geda-bundle (from
>    .../geda-bundle_1%3a1.2.1-10_darwin-i386.deb) ...
>    Setting up libgeda31-data (1.2.1-11) ...
>    Installing new version of config file /sw/etc/gEDA/system-gafrc ...
>    Setting up libgeda31-shlibs (1.2.1-11) ...
>    Setting up geda-gattrib (1.2.1-10) ...
>    Setting up geda-gnetlist (1.2.1-11) ...
>    Setting up geda-gsch2pcb (1.2.1-11) ...
>    Setting up geda-utils (1.2.1-11) ...
>    Setting up geda-gschem (1.2.1-10) ...
>    Setting up geda-gsymcheck (1.2.1-11) ...
>    Setting up geda-bundle (1.2.1-10) ...
>
>    Now, when I try to run gschem, I get:
>
>    Failed to load default component libraries.
>    Pango-ERROR **: file pango-layout.c: line 3189
>    (pango_layout_check_lines): assertion failed: (!layout->log_attrs)
>    aborting...
>    Abort trap
>    How do I solve this?
>

If you have the debris from a source install still hanging around,  
you'll often have problems. Be sure you remove them.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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