Comment 8 for bug 1485199

Peter TB Brett schreef op vr 21-08-2015 om 09:13 [+0000]:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Have you got all of the development packages you need installed?
>
> You may need to install the guile-2.0-dev package.
>

Ah, yes, of course .... the development packages ... Damn that modern
Linux, everything works out of the box, the last time I needed to
compile something was a few years ago :-)

Anyway, I got it to compile without errors, but can I test this newly
compiled version without do the 'make install' step?
I can't afford to end up with a broken gschem installation, since I'm
using it on an almost daily basis.

I tried simply executing gschem/src/gschem from within the ~/geda-gaf
directory, but that results in an error message:

        > gschem/src/gschem
        Backtrace:
        In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
         157: 1 [catch #t #<catch-closure 1424400> ...]
        In unknown file:
           ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1424400>]

        ERROR: In procedure apply-smob/1:
        ERROR: In procedure scm_to_utf8_stringn: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting string): #f

I can't find any testing

It's probably once again my clumsiness (not to mention cluelessness)
with regard to software development, but I have no idea how to test-run
a freshly compiled target, or even if that is possible at all.

Anyway, thanks already for the heads-up about development packages,
stupid of me to forget.

Best regards

Richard Rasker