Re: gEDA: Compile problems with icarus and SuSE 10.0

[Dan Andersson <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart,

Slightly Off Topic but WTH...

I'm sure 99.99% or even a larger proportion of the current and future SuSE 
users never uses Emacs and just would not miss it if removed from the dist!

I just hated the Emacs from the very day it came out... as I was running both 
Vax/VMS and Unix at the same time during the early eighties.

Yaya - scripting you say... better done in ed and perl anyway nowadays.

Gnome versus KDE.

KDE seems to please most of the people I work with here in Europe. For some 
odd reason, most of the US staff tend to prefer Gnome. However, SuSE are 
supposedly changing direction again, and moving towards Gnome as preferred 
desktop. Personally, I can't understand why SuSE ditched their Ximian Desktop 
as it was a KDE'ified Gnome... Looked good and was nice to work with.

Anyway...   I'm going to take a dive into the snapshot as the earlier created 
some trouble for me while attempting to compile.

Also, I can't agree with anyone that complains on a compiler that are "too 
strict"... Try write the programs according to the language syntax spec 
instead and we would all have lesser compilation and porting problems.
It's nice to see the latest gcc trying to clean up it's own act.
( Yes, I'm originating from an ADA world... )


Cheers


Dan



On Monday 21 November 2005 00:57, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Peter, and anybody else interested:
>
> I put a snapshot of the latest gEDA Suite install CD onto my website:
>
> http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/
>
> The one you want to try is dated 20051120.  It is an alpha-test
> release.  It seems to work on SuSE 10.0, at least in the few
> configurations I have tested.  Note that SuSE 10.0 doesn't install
> gcc, or any of the gtk-devel stuff by default.  (It doesn't install
> emacs by default either, unless you install the LaTeX package.  What's
> up with that?!?!?!?)  Therefore, you need to make sure these are
> installed before running the installer.  You also need to install the
> Gnome version of the desktop environment -- and not the KDE version --
> of course.
>
> Anyway, this snapshot will likely install cleanly for you on SuSE
> 10.0.  Please give it a trial, and let me know about your success or
> failure.  I hope it will help you, and by testing it you will help me!
> Thanks!
>
> Stuart