Re: gEDA-dev: Building pcb on cygwin from fresh CVS CO

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:10 +0100, Timmerman, Bert wrote:
> 
>> <<20061129_pcb-build.log.gz>> Hi all,
>>
>>Last night I tried to configure/make pcb under cygwin from a fresh check
>>out from cvs (not an update).
>>
>>IMHO it is missing "puller.txt", "thermal.txt", "puller.png"and
>>"thermal.png", complains about it and then bails out.
> 
> 
> Try configuring with ./configure --with-gui=gtk --enable-maintainer-mode
> 
> Those files are auto-generated when PCB is built, and as such are not
> checked into CVS. In a release tarball, they are shipped by whoever made
> the tarball.
> 
> I've not done a build on cygwin myself though, but it should just work
> if you have the right packages installed.
 >
> (IIRC, it only builds if there is an XServer running and DISPLAY is set
> etc.. the program which generates some of the graphics does so using X.)

not anymore.  It used to be the case that we (I) used tgif for one 
figure in the manual.  Now all figures in the manual are done in pcb but 
unless you have the PNG HID compiled in you can't build the docs.

-Dan





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