Re: gEDA-user: 2 make errors installing gwave

I thought I was being safe by posting those questions prior to screwing with, and screwing up, my system but somehow screwing up is the end result. I started up in linux, fedora 7, to have at it again. After some script flashing past me during boot up, some oks but quite a few fails, I got the following screen:

I'm hoping someone knows exactly what this is and how to unbrake it. It would be difficult to reproduce the steps I've been through. I can say fairly confidently I did not edit any file or move any file. The only file I opened was the gwave configure file and I opened it in a text editor. I made no changes but I doubt that is the problem. Really the only thing I did the since I came up successfully was search for and view directories and files.

I don't know if I went with the wrong distribution when selecting Fedora. A freind suggested it because they were rumored to have good support. In hind sight I probably should have asked everyone here, the gEDA gurus, what is the best distribtion to use with gaf since this is the reason I started using linux. Oh well, if this is unrecoverable, and I'm hoping it isn't, then consider the question out there!

Nothing specific, get comfortable with simulation. I came from using Mentor products, GUI driven, quite some time ago. I started using LTSpice because it seemed familiar. Then decided to resist the GUI urge and get comfortable with ngspice and/or gnucap as many suggested it is worth the effort. When eventual simulation happens simulation will mostly be mixed signal control systems, some audio.

On Nov 30, 2007 7:46 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:55 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> al davis wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 November 2007, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> >> Yeah, I know that several people will now chime in and say
> >> "It's easy!
> >
> > I think he's using Fedora ... Isn't there a package available?
> > How about:
> > "yum install gwave"
> >
> >
> > .... but you are correct. There is a real problem here.
> > and the creator of gwave doesn't hang out here.
>
> it doesn't help that guile-gtk basically died. gwave either has to do a
> rewrite and dump guile-gtk or it has to use guile-gnome (or whatever it
> is called) which adds another whole large pile of dependencies.
> Otherwise it is stuck with guile-gtk that uses gtk1.

The latest gwave uses GTK2, with guile-gnome etc.. This said, there were
some issues I encountered when building it (harder than gwave in some
cases), and it didn't seem as stable (so I kept using the older gwave
for "production" use).

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Peter Clifton

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