gEDA-user: I am having problems making and installing.

[Kipton Moravec <kip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 1.4.0-20080127 installed.

Installed it with synaptic manager with Ubuntu 8.04.

I need to update convert_sym in the util package.

I downloaded the latest version of convert_sym and made some changes. It
will not let me compile because 

configure: error: libgeda detection error: Requested 'libgeda >=
20080929' but version of libgeda is 20080127

So I decided to install 1.4.1.20080929

1. I downloaded all of the files into /home/backup/Work/gEDA
2. I checked and gtk+, guile, pkg-config, LibStroke are the right
versions.
3. All of the files are untared.
4. The instructions say "Set the prefix= variable in the make file."

I do not understand what that means. 
Do I have to edit the makefile in my /home/backup/Work/gEDA?
Or is "prefix=" part of the command with an argument?
and what should it be if I want to overwrite my existing 1.4.0 version.

5. So I just entered

make

and it looks like it set the variables.

6. Then I tried 

make install

kip@red:/home/backup/Work/gEDA $ make install
( cd geda-symbols-1.4.1; make install )
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1'
Making install in 4000
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000'
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/4000" || /bin/mkdir -p
"/usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/4000"
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/gEDA': Permission
denied
make[3]: *** [install-data4000DATA] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1/4000'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/backup/Work/gEDA/geda-symbols-1.4.1'
make: *** [symbols_install] Error 2

so something is wrong. 

I am guessing it has to do with the Step #4 that I did not know what to
do about.

What do I do?

Kip
 
 
In that directory from the I typed make
-- 
Kipton Moravec AE5IB
"Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain




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