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[Igor Plyatov <plyatov@...>]

Hello Neil!

Please wait some time.
Now I write the new version of "install.txt" file, but I have not so 
much time for this.

> I have been packaging 20080313-r890 on Archlinux and have come across
> a number of issues:
>
> 1) The master makefile still expects "help" at the top-level of the
> source tree although it now resides under "doc" in kicad-doc. This
> requires relocation of the help directory after extraction (also see
> 3, later).
Do not use the old makefiles for KiCad building!

Use new CMake build system.
Please trace for the news at
http://kicad.sourceforge.net

> 2) The "help" makefile installs to $PREFIX/share/
>
> doc/kicad instead of
> $PREFIX/share/doc/kicad/help. This results in the various programs not
> being able to find their help files.
>
> 3) I understand the sense behind splitting the source into 3 separate
> tarballs but having kicad-doc and kicad-library extract into similarly
> named directories is a real pain for packagers. Could it be changed so
> that all tarballs extract to the directory "kicad"?
>
> - Neil Darlow

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Igor Plyatov