Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Mike Crowe
I second that. VERY NICE. Finally getting away from that dated DOS app looking output. On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:25 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >> Now if we could only do something about that horrid font. > > > > Your wish is Peter Clifto

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 19:16 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > In case anyone's interested, remaining pango issues: > > Metric hinting.. or not. On means we have to recompute text bounds at > every zoom level change, but output is legible. Output varies in exact > position w.r.t other objects on page

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> Now if we could only do something about that horrid font. > > Your wish is Peter Cliftons command. He managed to make gschem use an > external font engine for the screen (pango). My blog contains > screenshots > of an early test version of

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 19:02 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:50:32 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > > >I assume I got the head with "git clone git://git.gpleda.org/ > > gaf.git"? > > > >(I'm a CVS/SVN guy...git gives me gas) > > There is an abridged git howto in the ge

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:50:32 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: >I assume I got the head with "git clone git://git.gpleda.org/ > gaf.git"? > >(I'm a CVS/SVN guy...git gives me gas) There is an abridged git howto in the geda wiki: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:scm > Now if we could

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >>Now if we could only do something about that horrid font. I had >> serious wood to integrate FreeType into both gschem and PCB awhile >> back, but I've never been able to find the time. I've done some stuff >> with FreeType and it's damn imp

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 05 January 2009 17:50:32 Dave McGuire wrote: >Now if we could only do something about that horrid font. I had > serious wood to integrate FreeType into both gschem and PCB awhile > back, but I've never been able to find the time. I've done some stuff > with FreeType and it's damn im

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: >>THAT'S gonna be a nasty can of worms to get built. :-( > > You'll need cairo (go ahead and get the 1.8.x version, its better than > the old ones), libpixman (again, the later the better). Might need a > particular pango version, I'm not sure.

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 21:02 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: >THAT'S gonna be a nasty can of worms to get built. :-( You'll need cairo (go ahead and get the 1.8.x version, its better than the old ones), libpixman (again, the later the better). Might need a particular pango version, I'm not sure. GL

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-04 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 4, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: >> It looks like you are missing the pkg.m4 file. This is a file >> full of >> m4 macros which are expanded by aclocal (one of the autotools) while >> creating "configure". On my system it is in >> >> /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 > >Crap, I have

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-04 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 4, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Stuart Brorson wrote: >> Sources from git, 20081221 (1.5.1)...I've been fighting with this >> for a couple of hours; I must be missing something really stupid, but >> it is driving me batty: >> >> checking for pkg-config... /bin/pkg-config >> ./configure: line 21589: s

Re: gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-04 Thread Stuart Brorson
> Sources from git, 20081221 (1.5.1)...I've been fighting with this > for a couple of hours; I must be missing something really stupid, but > it is driving me batty: > > checking for pkg-config... /bin/pkg-config > ./configure: line 21589: syntax error near unexpected token `GUILE,' > ./configure

gEDA-user: Solaris build problems, 'elp?

2009-01-04 Thread Dave McGuire
Sources from git, 20081221 (1.5.1)...I've been fighting with this for a couple of hours; I must be missing something really stupid, but it is driving me batty: checking for pkg-config... /bin/pkg-config ./configure: line 21589: syntax error near unexpected token `GUILE,' ./configure: line