Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:19 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: >I did have exactly those problems. I spent most of an afternoon > digging through all of that, though, and I'm confident that I've > gotten them resolved. The latest GTK (and friends) are compiled and > installed, but anything tha

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: >>> I'm confused: I thought OpenSolaris used a GTK+-based GUI? >> >>It does. (well, more like "can") Thing is, the stuff it ships >> with is kinda old, too old for later release of Cairo to use. >> So...The resulting deluge of dependencies

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:11 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > > Please try the latest GTK+ 2.8.x point release, and see if that > > works. It has > > a lot less code than the very newest GTK+ release, so it should > > have fewer > > portability problems. > >I will; thank you for the suggestion

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >>> and versions of GLib/GTK+ since 2.4 are available for the vast >>> majority of consumer operating systems and CPU architectures. >>> AFAIK, it works >>> on *at least* Solaris, Windows, Linux and BSD, on x86, x86-64, PPC >>> and ARM. >> >>No

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 22:56:09 Dave McGuire wrote: > > and versions of GLib/GTK+ since 2.4 are available for the vast > > majority of consumer operating systems and CPU architectures. > > AFAIK, it works > > on *at least* Solaris, Windows, Linux and BSD, on x86, x86-64, PPC > > and ARM. > >

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >>And actually, though, the portability problems that are giving me >> heartburn lately are with gEDA, not PCB proper. GTK (and its thirty >> or so dependencies) is a big pain in the ass for anyone who is not >> running the absolute latest rel

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 19:51:48 Dave McGuire wrote: >And actually, though, the portability problems that are giving me > heartburn lately are with gEDA, not PCB proper. GTK (and its thirty > or so dependencies) is a big pain in the ass for anyone who is not > running the absolute latest