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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: Copy version.h from tarball to git clone
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Don Kuenz:
> After the extraction of version.h, "make" successfully runs until it
> reaches the "po" directory.
>
>     cd geda-gaf/xorn/po
>     make xorn.pot-update
>
> At that point "make" displays a whole slew of errors.

These warnings are due to the fact that Python's string formatting 
mechanism doesn't support reordering arguments.  It would probably be a 
good idea to change that, but unless someone volunteers to translate the 
new messages to a language which requires this, these warnings can safely 
be ignored.

Don Kuenz:
> The *.ged files were used to capture make output.
>
>     ./configure --disable-xorn && make
>
> successfully finished, as did
>
>     make install
>
> geda is now installed and functioning.

As Vladimir already pointed out, the version.h problem can't really be 
related to Xorn.  Could you please re-configure gEDA without the 
`--disable-xorn' argument and see if it still works?  If not, at which 
point does the build process stop, and what are the error messages?

> What does xorn do?

Xorn is a mechanism to allow for better scripting support which involves a 
partial refactoring of libgeda.  Vladimir doesn't like it.

See here for more information:
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/49872/
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/47487/
   http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:xorn_getting_started


Vladimir Zhbanov:
> Don Kuenz:
> > Do you want to see more of xorn's make output?
>
> Nope, thanks ;-)

Your complaints about build problems involving Xorn don't appear sincere 
if you actively discourage users from providing the information necessary 
to fix them.