I just pushed some changes to part of how the PCB build system works.
Currently we have 2 ways people get sources. 1) download snapshot tarball files 2) via git or anoncvs Besides some of the usual tools (a C compiler for example), there are some additional tools needed to build a complete PCB install. These are: pcb itself with the png HID compiled in. This is used to convert some .pcb files to .png files for the html version of the manual. This is also used to create png previews for all of the pcblib-newlib footprints. Note that this means if you are cross compiling pcb, you need a pcb which runs on the host system. texinfo. This is used for creating the manual. latex. This is used for building the reference card. Note that the refcard is woefully out of date. On top of that, since the hotkeys are all defined via pcb-menu.res and gpcb-menu.res, any refcard that is "hardcoded" can easily be wrong for your system. perl. This is used for extracting all of the file format and action reference comments out of the source code and putting them into the manual. Note that after DJ's huge effort in this area, the manual has stayed complete and up to date with regards to actions and file formats. A long time ago, I took the approach of trying to make sure that these extra tools (pcb+png, texinfo, latex, perl) were not needed if you were building from a tarfile. At the same time I wanted to keep Makefile rules in place for rebuilding the generated files. The result was needing --enable-maintainer-mode when building docs. Even though this was documented in a file, users have stumbled across this hack many times and the resulting error has always been less than useful. What I have done is now configure looks for the presence of $(top_srcdir)/.git and if that directory exists then rules for building the docs are turned on and configure will check for the needed tools. If configure fails to find the tools it wants, it fails with an explicit message saying what it couldn't find, why it wants it, and that you can still use --disable-doc if you just don't care about the manual. There may be some rough edges left so I'd appreciate any feedback and problem reports around this change. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user