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Building the gEDA/gaf git repository version
General Instructions
To build the git repository version of gEDA/gaf, follow these instructions:
It is pretty important to have all of the above programs (especially automake, autoconf, libtool, gtk, and guile) installed in the same prefix (like /usr or /usr/local). If you do not have them all installed in the same prefix, then building and installing gEDA/gaf is much harder.
Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the
gEDA SCM page
Build the software by executing the following commands inside of the newly cloned git repository:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda
$ make
$ make install
If the above commands execute without any error messages, then you have successfully built and installed gEDA/gaf. If you encounter any errors, be sure to read the README and INSTALL files contained within the tarball.
It is recommended that you add PATH_WHERE_gEDA_GAF_IS_INSTALLED/bin
to your PATH environment variable (typically done by modifying one of the following files: $HOME/.bashrc
, $HOME/.bash_profile
, or $HOME/.profile
).
If you want to get gEDA/gaf repository commit log e-mail messages, please subscribe to the geda-cvs mailing list. Please see the
mailing lists page for info on how to do this.
Debian-based
This is tested on Crunchbang Linux but should work on Debian and Ubuntu also.
Install the build dependencies for the packaged version of gEDA:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep geda
Install the texinfo package:
$ sudo apt-get install texinfo
If you want to generate doxygen output, install it:
$ sudo apt-get install doxygen
Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the
gEDA SCM topic .
From inside the newly cloned repository, build gEDA/gaf:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda [--enable-doxygen]
$ make
$ make install
MacPorts
MacPorts is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. MacPorts has a packaged installation of gEDA/gaf but occasionally one needs a more up-to-date version (such as that from git). The easiest way to build from git HEAD on MacPorts is to install the packaged version (at time of writing, 1.6.2) as a way of bringing most of the dependencies into the MacPorts tree.
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Install the MacPorts-packaged version of gEDA/gaf. As a happy side-effect, this brings in the build prerequisites:
$ sudo port install geda-gaf
If you want to generate doxygen output, install doxygen:
$ sudo port install doxygen
Clone the source from the official git repository. For information on how to do this, read the
gEDA SCM topic .
From inside the newly cloned repository, build gEDA/gaf:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda --disable-update-xdg-database [--enable-doxygen]
$ make
$ make install
To run the software, you need to set an environment variable to allow Guile to load its shared libraries:
$ export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
$ gschem