Re: gEDA-user: xinstall problems -- otherwise impressive

[sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson)]

I don't like to slag off anybody's contribution to a free software
project.  Anybody who makes a contribution should be lauded.  But I
will say that  I have never been able to successfully install gEDA
except via the manual way (i.e. download all the .tar.gz files, gunzip
them individually, and then "run make all" from the command line.)
None of the fancier install packages have ever worked for me -- they
always segfault.  

Perhaps they will some day [1].  In particular, I am very hopeful that
the GUI-based setup utility will work someday because I would very
much like to see a Linux equivalent of the Windoze install wizard. 

Stuart

[1] Yes, I know that I should try my hand at fixing them instead of
complaining!  Perhaps when I have more free time . . . . .

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've checked previous threads and have been unable to find similar
> problems reported by others, and am curious to see if there is something
> i am overlooking.
> 
> when i try to run xinstall, i receive the following:
> [snip]
> Checking for tar ...
> Checking for gcc ...
> Checking for wget ...
> Checking for libglib ...
> Checking for libgtk ...
> Checking for geda-setup ...
> Starting geda-setup ...
> ./setup.sh: line 116:   760 Segmentation fault      ./${DIR_PREFIX}setup
> make: *** [xinstall] Error 139
> [/snip]
> 
> also- i downloaded and am trying to setup using version 20030901.  when
> i try xinstall, it downloads and compiles version 20030525.  what do i
> have to do to stop that?  it gives me messages about setup.cfg and
> setup.sh, which are both present in the 20030901 version directory...  i
> read the makefile and they are exactly where it expects them to be.
> 
> i have compiled each package the old-fashioned way and am having limited
> success.  when attempting to create pcb layouts, i receive the
> following: sh: line 1: pcb: command not found
> 
> Thanks a lot for any info. I'm looking forward to getting into this
> environment if i can hammer out the small issues i'm running into now.
> 
> regards,
> 
> phil
> 
>