Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 1.4.1.20080929 stable snapshot

This is the fourth stable release of gEDA/gaf. It rolls up a few bug fixes that were made since version 1.4.0.

NOTE: This is a stable snapshot and should be packaged up by distribution package maintainers.

Changes

Changes in this release only (since v1.4.0):


Carlos Nieves Onega (1):
• Fix missing %s in two strings.
Patrick Bernaud (1):
• Fix memory leak in gschem.
Peter Clifton (2):
• Fix verilog and VHDL netlist backends
• Add libgeda/po/POTFILES.skip for intl/plural.c
Peter TB Brett (1):
• Don't crash on zero snap grid spacing [2026598]
Werner Hoch (4):
• Fix drawing artefact in rubbernet drawing code
• update the pinnumbers if a slot attribute is deleted
• o_delete_text(): only call o_attrib_slot_update() for COMPLEX objects.
• libgeda: fixed EOL handling for mixed windows/linux usage
For all the other changes from last development series (1.4.x):
• gaf-1.4.0 Release Notes

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

• Many thanks to everybody who contributed to this snapshot and previous development snapshots. Thanks to Peter Brett for doing all the heavy lifting for this release (getting all the patches on the stable-1.4 branch).
• Updates to this stable snapshot (1.4.x series) will occur if people find issues.
• The next major stable snapshot (1.6.x) will probably happen at the end of this year.
• Please submit all bugs to the bug tracker.

Download

• http://www.geda.seul.org/release/v1.4/1.4.1 (USA)
• http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/release/v1.4/1.4.1 (Europe)

Required Libraries/Programs

Required libraries:
• gtk+ ≥ 2.4.x (tested with 2.8.x).
  NOTE: gtk+ 1.2.x is no longer supported.
• guile ≥ 1.6.x (tested with 1.6.x and 1.8.1).
  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

Packages/Binaries/Installers

• Debian packages for unstable can be found here or using apt-get (might be slightly dated; soon to be updated).
• RPM packages for Fedora Core 7 can be found here. The packages can also be installed by running:
  yum install geda\*

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. utils
   8. docs
   9. examples