Re: gEDA-user: Questions on downloading and installing gnucap and gwave

["Robert Butts" <r.butts2@xxxxxxxxx>]

> A warning on gwave ....  It requires guile 1.6.  It does not
> work with guile 1.8.  Do "guile --version" to verify that.

So what do I do if I have guile 1.8, which I do?

On Nov 17, 2007 3:04 AM, al davis <ad151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007, Robert Butts wrote:
> > When extracting gwave, should I extract it to: usr/share/?
>
> No.
>
> When you unpack a source tarball, do it in a place you can work
> on it, not a public place like /usr/share.
>
> Usually, you do "./configure" then "make".  Then try it where it
> is.  To install it is usually "sudo make install".
>
> I didn't check this one, but most by default install
> in /usr/local   ..  This means the parts are put
> in /usr/local/bin , /usr/local/share , or whatever.
>
> There are differences of opinion on where applications should be
> installed.  Usually the distribution you are using has made
> some decisions, and you should stick to that.
>
> For Linux, it is most common that packages managed by the
> package manager go in /usr
> (meaning /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /use/share .....)
> and you should install non-managed packages in /usr/local.  This
> is deliberately a different place from the managed packages.
>
>
> A warning on gwave ....  It requires guile 1.6.  It does not
> work with guile 1.8.  Do "guile --version" to verify that.
>
> If you try to use 1.8, the messages it gives are not
> particularly useful.
>
>
>
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