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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Miguel,

Thank you for taking on this task.  I wish I had the time to figure out
why the gtk3 rendering doesn't work properly.  For now your solution is
the way to go.  At least the redhat based distro users will be able to
use kicad thanks to your efforts.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 2/14/2015 5:18 PM, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:
> 
> Fedora 21 nightlies build is fully working now (no more canvas problems), I 
> had to recompile wxGTK3 with ‘gtk2’ and wxPython with that build, then
> kicad on top.
> 
> If you had the repo configured previously, do a:
> 
> dnf clean all
> dnf remove wxGTK3 wxPython kicad
> dnf install kicad
> 
> Otherwise follow the instructions at:
> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mangelajo/kicad/
> 
> 
> To override other wxGTK3 or wxPython versions, I have bumped the
> revisions of those
> with +1000, but that’s a bit hacky, and may break when fedora releases
> new wxGTK3 versions,
> I will look into a definitive solution as soon as I can, but that may
> work for now.
> 
> Please, let me know how if it works/doesn’t work for you.
> 
> Eventually I will set a builder for the stable version too.
> 
> Best regards, 
> Miguel Ángel Ajo
> 
> On Thursday, 15 de January de 2015 at 11:25, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:
> 
>>
>> I wanted to announce that I have created this repository with nightly
>> builds for KiCad:
>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mangelajo/kicad/
>> http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/fedora-nightlies/
>>
>> It has wxPython and python scripting enabled, and it’s based on
>> wxWidgets 3.0.0,
>> as kicad is now.
>>
>> For now you will find it’s a bit broken, as the wxGTK3 canvas is not
>> working correctly
>> (having the same issue if I don’t link to wxPython3 and do it to the
>> fedora stock wxGTK3),
>> that means eeschema is quite unusable, pcbnew only works correctly on
>> the OpenGL or Cairo Canvas.
>>
>> By the way, even broken I believe it’s a good opportunity for anyone
>> willing to have a look on the latest release.
>>
>> Miguel Ángel Ajo
>>
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