Re: gEDA-user: macosx (10.3) - pcb 1.99j - blank menu's / drawing

[Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>]

On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 09:52 PM, Mikey Sklar wrote:

> I've been able to build and run gschem 20030901 fine on MAC OS/X 
> (10.3).
Good deal! No dependency problems? (I noticed that you mentioned "fink 
-y install tcltk" below...)

> However I've had a difficult time getting pcb 1.99j (20030815) to work
> well with Panther.
Your subject line threw me off.

To avoid confusion, pcb 1.99j is the last one that worked for me, and 
the 20030815 snapshot didn't. I numbered it 1.99.20030815 because dpkg 
and fink consider that version to be after 1.99j in the sort order.

>  Compiling by hand or with fink 0.6.1 works fine for
> me. The pcb binary starts and I can see the pcb workspace and buttons.
Do you see any colors in the window?

If not, then I think you tripped over the same bug I saw; namely, the 
app defaults file (which specifies colors, mouse bindings, etc.) is 
getting overwritten by the app itself. I couldn't think of a good way 
around this, since the problem is due in part to the fact that Mac OS X 
HFS+ volumes can't store two files in the same directory whose names 
differ only in case.

other random notes:

> 5) fink index
>    fink selfupdate
>    fink update-all
not necessary to do the "fink index" -- "fink selfupdate" runs as root, 
so it will rebuild the index in memory and write it out (which ends up 
being faster).

no big thing.

>    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ghz.cc:/home/cvsroot co fink-geda .
>    ^C after fink info/patch files make it down
hmm, you needed to use ^C? Can you email me off-list with some details 
about when you tried this?

>    cd fink-geda
>    cvs update -r geda_20030901
>
> 7) Copy fink info and patch files to this directory:
>
>    /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/
I just did a "sudo chown -R $USER /sw/fink/dists/local" and checked out 
the info files there. That way, you can just use "cvs update" in that 
directory.

Another thing: you can do a "cvs update -A pcb.*" to pull the 'HEAD' 
revision of PCB (but keep the latest gEDA tools). That will get you PCB 
1.99j

> 8) Make sure your gcc is 3.3 based.
>
>    sudo gcc_select 3.3
I will put this in the .info files when I submit them to the Fink 
maintainers, but for now, the "gcc: 3.3" tag may break older fink 
package managers.

Thanks for your feedback.

--
Charles Lepple
clepple@ghz.cc