I'm in the process with one of my friends to fix up the KiCad codebase
so that we can build packages of it for most of the major distributions
(Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SuSE).
Currently I have a working spec file for Fedora/SuSE and a partially
complete debian/ directory for Debian/Ubuntu, however, these only work
with a custom compiled version of wxWidgets and not the one the distro's
provide.
So far this has been the biggest stumbling block we've run into. We're
starting to take a look at the code to see what it would take to fix it
up for these compiles to work, but I wanted to check with the list first
to see if anyone else has done similar work yet? AFAIK, the original
code was all done in French, so it would make sense to have this be one
of the first languages with UTF-8 support...
On another note, I've also rewritten the build system to use SCons
instead of make. This gives us a lot of benefits over the existing
build system:
* The build system is a lot cleaner
* More reliable builds during development due to better dependency
handling
* Parallel builds now work
* Better cross-platform support (without moving to autoconf/automake)
I haven't put any of this up on my website yet as I'm still working on
it, but if anyone on the list is interested I would be happy to put up
what I have so far.
Bryan
