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

[Mike Jarabek <mjarabek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kipton Moravec wrote:
> 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.
>   
Yes, that is the place to edit the variable.

In order to replace the installed version with the version you are 
compiling, you will have to be root to install in the system shared 
directories.  This is the trouble you ran into with the install step 
complaining that it can't write.  You could try:

sudo make install

in the /home/backup/Work/gEDA directory.  This will prompt you for your 
password, then it will be able to install in the system directories.  If 
you do this, it will overwrite the installed version from the package 
manager, and you may end up with trouble later, if you try to use 
Synaptic package manager to delete it or a dependency.

It would be best to remove the gEDA package from the system entirely, 
(to avoid library mismatches) and edit the prefix variable in the top 
level Makefile to point to your home directory, where you have write 
access.  This will isntall gEDA outside of the package management 
system, and safely in your home directory.

You may need to set the path and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as the makefile 
instructs you.
> 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
>   



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