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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

KiCad now requires wxWidgets 3.0.0 or greater to build.  We are in the
process of phasing out support for the 2.8 branch due to the number of
know problems.  You can edit install_kicad.sh to build with wxWidgets
2.8.12 for your own purposes.  Please note that you will pretty much be
on your own for support.  At some point in the not too distant future,
KiCad will most likely start using some of the new features in wxWidgets
3.  At that point, KiCad will not build with wxWidgets 2.8.

On 10/11/2014 8:48 PM, Joseph Chen wrote:
> I have  been using kicad-install.sh script to install kicad in a few of 
> Ubuntu-14.04, and have found the script needs more error hadnling.  Here
> are some areas:
> 
> 1.  install_prerequisites()
> This function is using a single command "apt-get install" for ALL of the
> software packages.  It would work smoothly if ALL of the packages were
> available.  Unfurtunately, in the Ubuntu 14.04 case, python-wxgtk3.0 is
> not yet available and the command will fail for ALL of the packages. 
> Thus libwxgtk3.0-dev will not be installed at all (which will cause
> another error that needs an improved error handling.  See #2).
> 
> Suggestion:  Change to use a local loop to install each of the packages
> so that command "apt-get install" fails only for a single package, thus
> avoiding failing for ALL.
> 
> 2.  CMake check list
> When libwxgtk3.0-dev is not installed, due to the faillure in #1 aboe,
> the CMake check part stops short during compiling, but kicad-install.sh
> does not detect this failed compiling and just continue to install or
> copy parts files and doc files into the destnated directory.  At the
> end, it seems all install succeeded.  But there is NO "kicad" binary
> installed at all, much less of the rest of the binaries.  This situation
> has caused confussions to me a few times already.
> 
> Suggestion:  Add a error detection inside "kicad-install.sh" so that
> when compiling fails the script stop installing and print out an error. 
> This would help a user to investigate a root cause.
> 
> --Joe Chen
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