4 PCB, interactive printed circuit board design
5 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Thomas Nau
6 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 harry eaton
7 Copyright (C) 2001 C. Scott Ananian
9 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
12 (at your option) any later version.
14 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17 GNU General Public License for more details.
19 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
21 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
23 Contact addresses for paper mail and Email:
26 Columbia, MD 21044 USA
27 haceaton@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
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33 Previous releases have been successfully compiled on the following platforms:
36 Check the GNU info file for problems.
37 The dynamic offset for printouts is not supported because of the
38 missing panner widget. This version NOW REQUIRES X11R6
42 All HP machines require the MIT release of X11R6
43 HP does not ship the Athena Widgets with its release nor
44 necessary tools like imake... but you can get them as a patch.
45 You will also have to get yourself an ANSI compiler if you are stuck
49 You won't have any problems if you use X11R5 or later.
50 Using OpenWindows will cause some of them. See the GNU info file for
53 Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.3, 6.2 and 6.4
54 No problems beside additional CFLAGS in Imakefile. Check if you are
55 using a R4 server and, if you do, read the GNU info file of pcb.
57 Linux 0.99pl14 and later, XFree 2.1.1 and later
58 No problems; it's the developement platform.
60 SCO ODT 3.0 (probably, couldn't check the current release)
61 Needs tls003 of the Athena Widget library from sosco.sco.com
62 (mailed by John DuBois <spcecdt@deeptht.armory.com>).
64 FreeBSD (probably, couldn't check the current release)
71 This specific release has been installed and tested on GNU/Linux 2.4.10, X11R6,
72 specifically linux-pmac! based on the 2.4.10 kernel. This is a
73 redhat 7 based derivative, but few of the changes should materially
74 affect the other platforms described above. The special caveats to
75 those machines still apply.
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79 Quick install for the sloppy:
87 if everything is working good, quit then:
91 Do that last step as root.
93 More formal installation instructions:
95 ***** YOU MUST HAVE AN ANSI COMPILER TO COMPILE THESE SOURCES *****
97 Here's how to install:
99 1. Run the configure script. This is a standard GNU configure script.
100 In the simplest case you just run
104 This will configure PCB to install to /usr/local
105 To change the installation prefix to /opt/pcb , use
107 ./configure --prefix=/opt/pcb
113 for a full list of options
115 2. Run make to compile the software
119 3. Get yourself a printed copy of the documentation (available in
121 Read 'Whats_new*' to see if old file have to be updated.
124 4. Test the program before you install it to see if the application defaults
125 match your window environment.
130 5. Take the printed copies from (3) and check if the translations work
131 (see chapter 'Getting Started') by running
132 ./pcbtest.sh ../example/LED2
133 It comes up with a LED board layout you can play with.
135 Take special care on the resources related to functions keys and the
136 pointer buttons because most of the window managers use them too.
138 6. When you're satisfied with the defaults and the program run:
141 as a user with the appropriate rights. Depending on the filemodes set
142 by your X11 environment you must remove existing copies of fonts,
143 manpage and program before you are able to install successfully.
144 Set umask to 022 else the new created directories wont be world
145 readable; the fonts cannot be found.
147 6. Read 'MAILING' in this directory.
150 If you create any element files or package description files I would be glad
151 to get a copy to include them into the next release or an additional archive.