Re: gEDA-user: Probably parenthesis mismatch error on OS X

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

Finally got around to rebuilding from source, and it seems to have 
worked for me, too.  At least, gschem comes up and appears normal, and 
survived 10 seconds of testing...

-dave


Steven Ball wrote:
> 
> First off, I followed your page at http://www.ghz.cc/charles/fink/ to  
> configure my system to use the 'unstable' branch, and then followed  
> instructions from these guys:  http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ 
> item/14  to add in their binary package tree.  I ran a fink  
> selfupdate, and then a fink install geda-bundle.
> 
> This pulled in guile16 and the geda-bundle packages, which resulted  
> in the issue as described in earlier emails.
> 
> I then removed all geda packages, removed guile16, and removed the  
> Todai Fink Team's tree from my apt sources.  Next, I ran a fink  
> selfupdate, and then, a fink install geda-bundle, and it pulled in  
> guile16, the geda packages, and a bit of etc (I'm afraid I did not  
> note what else it pulled in), and then proceeded to compile them from  
> source.
> 
> At the completion of the compile, I ran gschem again and it has been  
> trucking along just fine.
> 
> Also, the source compile still depended on guile16.  I just let it  
> pull it in and compile it.  Perhaps guile16 is broken on my machine  
> via binary?
> 
> Other notes, my old powerbook, which was working with binary packages  
> of a much older version, is a PPC, and this new machine is Intel.   
> Don't know if is any kind of issue.
> 
> Let me know if you have further questions, I am more than happy to  
> give you whatever info that would help.
> 
> Thank you for your work on all this, regardless, it has saved me a  
> lot of work in the past.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Steven Ball wrote:
>>
>>> Built from source, no issues now.
>>>
>>> I guess there is an issue with the binary package, then.
>> Can you elaborate a little on what changed when you built from source?
>>
>> Which versions of guile were installed?
>>
>> Since the binary packages work on my machine, I would like to  
>> figure out what has changed.
>>
>>> Thanks all for your help!
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>> On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:47 PM, John Doty wrote:
>>>
>>>> Build from source is what worked for me.
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Steven Ball wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:26 PM, John Doty wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you tried installing guile18, and then reinstalling geda- 
>>>>>> bundle?
>>>>>> I really suspect the Guile compatibility issues are biting you  
>>>>>> here.
>>>>>> There are some hoops the installer needs to jump through  
>>>>>> depending on
>>>>>> which version of Guile you have, and Fink handles this differently
>>>>>> from other free software distros. And I'm having no problem with
>>>>>> guile18.
>> The idea behind having separate packages for guile16 and guile18  
>> (and their corresponding -dev splitoffs) is that you can build  
>> against one, and it should build the same way every time. (This is  
>> why some of the GUILE_* environment variables are hard-coded in the  
>> Fink .info files.)
>>
>>>>> The binary packages built for OS X depend on guile16 being
>>>>> installed.  Maybe I should try building from source and see what
>>>>> happens.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
>>>> http://www.noqsi.com/
>>>> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> -- 
>> Charles Lepple
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>>
>>
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