Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20060906 snapshot

libgeda/gschem
• Applied the patch to add the new print dialog box (Peter Brett).
• Fix Bug#1547138: Segfault on adding toplevel slot attribute to symbol (Werner Hoch).
• Updated all configure scripts to check for gtk+ 2.4.x or later.
• Fixed missing variable initialization in TOPLEVEL that was causing a seg fault (Patrick Bernaud).
• Applied patch to properly check for and remove the autosave callback when a toplevel object is being deleted (Patrick Bernaud).
• Moved the initialization of the autosave timer to make sure it is not setup for the preview window.
• Fixed several valgrind complaints related to the autosave code. Now valgrind is happier (on the gEDA/gaf code at least).
• Added a #define called CUSTOM_VERSION to libgeda/defines.h that is normally an empty string. However this can be set to any sort of string to make it easier to create custom version of gEDA/gaf. The string is then appended to all output that has the product VERSION. Please send Ales an e-mail if you do this and distribute the resulting sources and binaries.
• Applied patch for Bug#1552338: "system-gschemrc gedadata/rc mismatch" (Charles Lepple).
• Fixed up the installation of a couple files that were going into the wrong install directory.
• Changed the mouse gain to unity, since people seem to prefer the smoother behavior. Left the keyboard gain at 20 though.
• Updated the Italian translation (Michele Petrecca).
• Applied patch to remove the "discard changes" button from the file selection dialog (Peter Clifton).
• Applied the first patch and performed a minor fixup to remove the key press event from the main window and moved it to the drawing area and set the mouse focus on the drawing area initially (Peter Clifton). Note, this patch wasn't ideal (hence the minor fixup), but the original problem should be fixed in this release. A better patch is in CVS now (as of 2006/09/08).
• Applied patch to fix the odd behavior when the user pressed the ESCAPE key in the saveas dialog box, subsequent attempts to open the dialog box will fail with a critical gtk+ error message (Peter Clifton).

gnetlist

• Applied patch to fix gnet-gsch2pcb.scm fix m4 params bug/limit of 3. Patch#1542726 (Jeff Mallatt).
• Applied Patch#1551415: Some part of an error message was written in standard output instead of the the output file (Tomas Solc and Carlos Nieves Onega).

docs

• Updated the wiki snapshot to the latest web wiki version.

gattrib
symbols
gsymcheck
utils
examples

• No significant changes



For more a detailed changes, please look in the appropriate ChangeLogs in the source tarballs.

Notes/Bugs/Errata/Known Issues/Last Minute Issues

• I am still behind on applying patches and integrating contributed symbols. However, I am pleased to say that my mbox is slowly shrinking. :)
• Many thanks to everybody involved in this release. Thanks.
• As usual, send all bug reports and suggestions to the geda-dev or geda-user mailing lists. Thanks.

Download

• http://www.geda.seul.org/devel/20060906 (USA)
• http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/devel/20060906 (Europe)

Required Libraries/Programs

Most can be found at: http://www.geda.seul.org/dist

Required libraries:

• gtk+ ≥ 2.4.x (tested with 2.6.x).
  NOTE: gtk+ 1.2.x is no longer supported.
• guile ≥ 1.6.3 (tested with 1.6.7).
  NOTE: guile 1.4.x is no longer supported.

Required programs:

• pkg-config ≥ 0.15.0
  NOTE: You MUST install pkg-config regardless of gtk+ version.

Optional libraries:

• LibStroke ≥ 0.5.1
• libgdgeda ≥ 2.0.15
  NOTE: You MUST install 2.0.15, 2.0.9 and earlier versions will not work.
• zlib ≥ 1.1.x
• libpng ≥ 1.2.x

Packages/Binaries/Installers

• Debian packages for unstable can be found here or using apt-get.
• RPM packages for Fedora Core 4 can be found here.
• An updated gEDA Suite CD is currently being tested and will be uploaded soon.

Building/Installing/Running

There are several ways of building gEDA/gaf:

1. Download *all* the above files and the required libraries.
2. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4. Set the prefix= variable in the Makefile
5. Run: make and set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH)
6. Run: make install
   This should complete with NO errors.
7. Run: gschem and select Help/Manual... for all available documentation.

   Before you run gschem, gnetlist, gattrib, or gsymcheck you will need to set those three environment variables, or add them to a shell startup file (.bashrc, or .bash_profile or .profile)

-OR-

1. Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2. Set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH) correctly to the place where you are installing everything.
3. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
4. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
5. Go into each directory and run:
   ./configure [ with --prefix=$HOME/geda if you wish ]
   make install

   You must build and install the packages in the following order:

   1. libgeda
   2. symbols
   3. gschem
   4. gnetlist
   5. gsymcheck
   6. gattrib
   7. geda
   8. utils
   9. docs
   10. examples