Re: gEDA-user: Initial Impressions

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

Hi,

[snip]
>The problem came in because gschem searches for the config files
>in libgeda directory, rather than gschem directory.  This is


	Ah yes, now it all makes sense.


>fine if gschem exists in the same directory as libgeda, however
>on my system I have taken advantage of the --prefix arg to 
>configure to separate, and install each program in it's own
>self-contained directory.
>
>I would normally expect for gschem config files to be found in
>the gschem directory, or for gschem to search a common config
>directory (i.e. /etc, /usr/local/bin/etc).  That's where the
>failure comes in.  gschem only searches the libgeda directory.

	There is another solution to this problem.  You can 
./configure with --with-rcdir=path  and set this path to whatever
you want (i.e. /usr/local/bin/etc or /etc/gEDA).  This is used 
by the debian package to search for all configuration files in
/etc/gEDA.  What I do recommend, is putting all the rc files
into the same directory when using --with-rcdir.  

							-Ales