Re: gEDA: gEDA/gaf 20050313 source tarballs released

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Mike --

> I've just compiled and installed gEDA from the v20050313 source tar balls on
> two Redhat 9 machines. Both machines already had all of the required
> dependencies installed. It took a little trial and error but everything went
> surprisingly well IMHO.

Have you tried using the install CD?  I ask because it contains not
only gEDA/gaf 20050313, but also other nice EDA apps like ngspice,
PCB, Icarus Verilog, etc.

> One point however. I installed gEDA to /usr/local/geda and used the make all
> approach from the geda root directory as a non-root user. libgeda was the
> first to be compiled but couldn't be installed because of the need for root 
> access. Once I'd worked out that I needed to enter libgeda/ and manually 
> install as root everything worked fairly well after that. If geda where
> installed in my home directory this would not be an issue but when root
> access is required it can be confusing. Perhaps there needs to be some
> instructions cover this option.

If you use it, the install CD will determine if you need root
permission into the install directory (in your case /usr/local/geda)
and ask you for the root pw so it can install the stuff.  Some people
consider this a misfeature.  In this case, however, it seems that if
you had an installer tell you before hand that you needed to be root
to install into /usr/local/geda, that would be a good thing.  Right?

Stuart