Re: gEDA-user: Usability issues of gEDA + PCB

[Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/05, Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As John pointed out in another posting, goal #2 is accomplished
> using the install CD.  Some points w.r.t. the install CD:

Respect to Stuart for his work, but I have a different idea:

I think the installer GUI could be replaced with a Makefile.  The
sources could be stored uncompressed on the CD.

I looked into this once, but configure on one of the packages failed
when it was configured outside of the source tree.  I don't remember
which one it was, but if this could be fixed, a simpler CD
distribution could be made, to be used like this:

1) cd ~/some_build_directory
2) PREFIX=/install_prefix make /mnt/cdrom/Makefile install
3) there is no step 3.

Another option is to plop some giant statically-linked binaries on the
CD. No install necessary, just lots of RAM.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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