Re: gEDA-user: Old version of geda ?

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> >> I downloaded the latest sources from=20
> >> http://www.geda.seul.org/download.html
> >> And I built them.
> >>
> >> And I confirmed the timestamp on the executables and that I am running =
> >> the right executable.
> >>
> >> But the "help/about" menu says the version is 20040111.
> >>
> >> So am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > Yes, mine says 20050814.  Check your $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and so on.
> >
> 
> Paths were all fine.  There is no older version on this system, it is a 
> newly built box.
> 
> It seems I didn't have autoconf or automake or libtools installed.  Not sure 
> if they are needed or not.  

You don't need those unless you are checking stuff out of CVS, or are
a developer. 

> Also got the latest configure "guess" updates. 
> This is on ubuntu 5.10.  There is no convenient way to get a nice dev 
> environment in ubuntu.  You have to separately install gcc, and g++ and g77, 
> and flex and bison, and on and on.

That stinks!

> Blew everything away and rebuilt it starting at same tarballs.  Now I have 
> the correct string in "help/about" .
> But the code is the same as before, same menus, same dialogs, no noticeable 
> difference.
> 
> So it looks like some of the "configure" steps were quietly failing, leaving 
> an old version number.

Weird!

Stuart