Re: gEDA-user: gEDA DLL hell

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Having read your messages, I believe you problem is that you are
trying to install different components of the gEDA Suite having
different date codes.  Configure won't let you do this since libgeda
tends to change from release to release.

Your best bet is to grab the CD ROM and do a fresh install of
gEDA/gaf.  This will give you everything (including gattrib), and it
will all have the same date code, so you won't be in .so hell.

Also, if you don't want to re-install all the components of the gEDA
Suite, you can at least grab the gEDA/gaf tarballs off the CD, copy
then to a local directory, and then build them manually.

Stuart


> 
> My friend (who miracuously managed to install gEDA before) now needs to
> run gattrib and he realizes he doesn't have it. When he tries to install
> it, he runs into DLL hell. He has Ubuntu.
> 
> Would it be possible to write a guide on the Download page what should
> one do if he wants to install gattrib (regardless of what version of
> gEDA and which parts he has currently installed on his PC, and
> regardless of whether he uses plain GNU/Linux, Linux from scratch,
> debian, ubuntu, gentoo, redhat, or whatever).
> 
> This is just a practical proof showing that distributions don't
> solve the DLL hell (they just move it to the less frequent
> applications).
> 
> CL<
>