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From: "Claudio Fabri (clafi AT gmx DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem shows the "About" dialog for most keystrokes
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Hi Roland.

> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 at 3:31 PM
> From: "Roland Lutz" <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
> To: "Claudio Fabri (clafi AT gmx DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem shows the "About" dialog for most keystrokes and all menu commands
>
> Hi Claudio,
>
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2019, Claudio Fabri (clafi AT gmx DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > I'm a long standing gEDA user and I like it very much. I've just been
> > away from it for a couple of months. I've installed gEDA suite on one of
> > my Gentoo machines and it's only recently (a few days ago) after a
> > regular system upgrade that I've noticed gschem now shows the About
> > dialog for almost every keystroke instead of doing the expected action.
>
> I believe this has been fixed in gEDA/gaf 1.10.0, so I'd recommend you to
> upgrade to the latest version.  The whole action mechanism has been
> revamped, allowing users to customize the toolbar and context menu, among
> other things.  You can find the latest sources as well as a list of what's
> new in 1.10.0 here:
>
> http://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.10/1.10.0/
>
> Roland

Well, I have tried compiling geda-1.10 directly on my Gentoo machine and it failed. Even if I had to specify --without-fam, GUILE_LIBS & GUILE_CFLAGS and PYTHON_LIBS & PYTHON_CFLAGS, compiling fails with an error message on including <fam.h> in gschem_change_notification.c:70:10, so either it's a bug or the README file incorrectly specifies it as "highly recommended". From what I see, fam/gamin is mandatory, not just recommended.

Note that on my machine pkg-config knows not "python2.pc" but "python-2.7.pc". Also note that I don't know if there's a way to specify Guile 2.2 because the configure scripts didn't detect it; same as Python detection, pkg-config arguments differ.

I am also surprised to see dependencies upon long deprecated packages such as Python 2.7, which support is dropped in a few days, and FAM/GAMIN, which are all superseded by INOTIFY (the latter might already be superseded by a more recent package, IIRC). Is there a plan to switch to more recent dependencies for those features?

Happy new year everyone,
Claudio