gEDA-dev: gEDA: the newbie experience

[John Doty]

On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:

>
>  * Does it make sense to merge the library hierarchies in each tool so
>    that if I have a directory under ~/gaf/symbols with the same  
> name as
>    one in the distributed library, the symbols under both will show up
>    together in a list?

Remember that this is a modular system: some of us don't use PCB.

>  * gschem crashes quite often.  Sorry this is vague, I'll try to get
>    around to getting more info.  Luckily I didn't lose any work  
> with the
>    backups in /tmp.

Probably the infamous slice bug. Try:

export G_SLICE=always-malloc

(or if you're using csh, "setenv G_SLICE always-malloc")

before invoking gschem.

Ales looked into this, says it's fixed in the CVS dev version.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd at wispertel.net