Re: gEDA-user: Installing gEDA from 20050820 Suite CD on Fedora

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> >Question:  What is the result of "gcc --version"?
>
> The above command returns:
> 
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)

As I suspected, your problem is that FC4 comes with gcc-4.x.  The 4.x
release of gcc imposes ultra-strict type checking.  Lots of gEDA
programs have trivial, insignificant type violations which
unfortunatly prevent gcc-4.x from compiling them.
This is bad news for everybody: gEDA users and developers alike.

For you, your best bet is to wipe your system clean and install
FC3, unless you have a specific reason to use FC4.  Then try to run
the CD again.  Alternately, if you are an 31337 haxor, you can remove
gcc-4, and get gcc-3.X running on your system.   This might be
extremely difficult.   

As for us gEDA developers, this is a wake-up call:  We need to clean
up our code so that it is clean enough to compile under gcc-4.x.

Stuart