Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-08-01 Thread Stuart Brorson
>> Therefore, reverting back to guile-1.6 would be a very welcome thing >> to me! > > Done! Thanks! Stuart ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-31 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:42 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote: > I would *love* to have guile-1.6.x back again. The guile issue is one > of the big reasons I haven't spun a CD recently. > > Guile 1.8 depends upon GNU's bignum package gmp, which isn't normally > pre-installed on most common distros. F

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Andy Peters
On Jul 24, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Stuart Brorson wrote: > I would *love* to have guile-1.6.x back again. The guile issue is one > of the big reasons I haven't spun a CD recently. > > Guile 1.8 depends upon GNU's bignum package gmp, which isn't normally > pre-installed on most common distros. For my C

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 00:55 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On 7/24/07, Peter Clifton wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just wanted to hear if the guile 1.8.x dependency is causing people > > problems, or is preventing them from testing / using the unstable > > development branch (if they wish to). > >

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On 7/24/07, Stuart Brorson wrote: > For my CD to > successfully install gEDA, it needs to install guile-1.8. To install > guile-1.8 I now need to install the bugnum stuff. This is too many > dependencies for me to feel comfortable about bundling onto a CD with > a fairly dumb installer. I would

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On 7/24/07, Peter Clifton wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to hear if the guile 1.8.x dependency is causing people > problems, or is preventing them from testing / using the unstable > development branch (if they wish to). > > If so, I have a small patch which introduces replacements for guile 1.

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Stuart Brorson
I would *love* to have guile-1.6.x back again. The guile issue is one of the big reasons I haven't spun a CD recently. Guile 1.8 depends upon GNU's bignum package gmp, which isn't normally pre-installed on most common distros. For my CD to successfully install gEDA, it needs to install guile-1.8

Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:54:45PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > I just wanted to hear if the guile 1.8.x dependency is causing people > problems, It was a pain in the neck, but I already got it to build for me. Packages linking with a zillion libraries each with half a dozen versions is starting

gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Clifton
Hi all, I just wanted to hear if the guile 1.8.x dependency is causing people problems, or is preventing them from testing / using the unstable development branch (if they wish to). If so, I have a small patch which introduces replacements for guile 1.8 functions if they are missing (making gaf c