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

[Doug Thistlethwaite <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it looks like I prompted a little discussion on this.  I tried downloading and installing the RPM's when I first discovered this project.  The problem is the RPM's do not include any of the tools that I am having problems with.  I would like to have all of the executables installed in the same place.  The RPM's have their own idea of where to put them.

I did search the FC4 packages and there is a compatibility package to use the old compiler.  Here is the results of gcc --version:

gcc32 --version
gcc32 (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47.fc4)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

I am not sure how I can get the installer to use this version instead of the 4.X version.  Any ideas?

Doug


Mark Rages wrote:

On 9/22/05, Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  

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.

    

A better bet than wiping the system, is to use Wojciech Kazubski's FC4 rpms:

http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/geda.html

(I would plug my mirror/yum archive here, but it's offline this week.)

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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