Re: gEDA-user: 2 make errors installing gwave

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Robert,
> 
>> If you couldn't tell already, I am new to Linux so this is somewhat vague to
>> me.
> 
> You've been trying to install gwave for quite a while now.  Your basic
> problem is that gwave has not been supported or brought up to date for
> perhaps five years.   It relies upon several libraries which are no
> longer present on modern Linux boxen.  Getting gwave to work on a
> modern Linux box would be fairly difficult for even an experienced
> Linux guru to do [1], so it's no wonder you are struggling.
> 
> Perhaps we should take a step back and look at the big picture.  What
> are you trying to do?  What files are you interested in viewing?  What
> is your proposed design and analysis flow?  Perhaps there is a better
> way to solve your problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> [1]  Yeah, I know that several people will now chime in and say "It's
> easy!  All he needs to do is install libfoo.so, recompile the kernal
> with the frombobulator settings enabled, and then rebuild gwave!"  And
> that's exactly my point in saying it's difficult for a newbie......


cd /usr/pkgsrc/cad/gwave && make install

thats not so hard ;)



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