On Thursday, January 12, 2012 01:10:46 AM Przemek Klosowski did opine:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:35 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've looked at the Makefile & its no resemblance to any Makefile I
> > ever saw.  When I try to run the make, I get this:
> > 
> > gene@shop:~/pcb-gcode$ make
> > ssh phk "mkdir -p www/CncPcb && chmod 644 www/CncPcb/* || true"
> > ssh: connect to host phk port 22: Connection timed out
> > make: *** [all] Error 255
> 
> Which software are you talking about? pcb-gcode is an Eagle macro
> package which I don't think requires compilation. Viesturs mentioned 
> probekins module, but I don't think you are talking about that one,
> either. The commands being run refer to something called CncPcb---did I
> miss it in the discussion here?
> 
> Is it possible that you downloaded all this to a single directory and it
> got jumbled up?
> What exactly did you download and compile?

gene@shop:~/pcb-gcode$ ls -lR
total 88
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene  4656 2012-01-11 16:23 emit_gcode.c
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene  4096 2012-01-11 16:23 Height probing for PCB isolation 
routing with Eagle_pcb-gcode_files
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10687 2012-01-11 16:23 Height probing for PCB isolation 
routing with Eagle_pcb-gcode.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene   291 2012-01-11 16:29 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 24585 2012-01-11 16:23 plt2g.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene  1407 2012-01-11 16:23 plt2g.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 21027 2012-01-11 16:24 queue.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene   417 2012-01-11 16:24 testpcb.ngc

./Height probing for PCB isolation routing with Eagle_pcb-gcode_files:
total 52
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 16695 2012-01-11 16:23 dsc_4552_small.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 18658 2012-01-11 16:23 pcb003_small.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene  5279 2012-01-11 16:23 powerlogo.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene  1537 2012-01-11 16:23 vh32.png

>From this link:<http://phk.freebsd.dk/CncPcb/>

Posted by Sven Wesley on Sat Dec 17 04:46:40 2011 to this list.

But, now there is a new CadSoft Eagle problem for all of us that renders
the whole project moot.

Apparently my freebie copy of eagle has timed out, the screen it opens 
is about 75% transparent and extremely bleached out, rendering it unusable.

Not IMO unusual at all, they really want to sell the $4799/copy version.
This now makes the 3rd time that the freebie download has died on me
in about 6 months time each, forcing me to go get a fresh copy.  And
I rarely use it, generally only for a viewer because I've never
figured out how to use it (and the freebies undo never worked either)

So I went and downloaded the newest freebie version, but when I do the usual
"wine name_of_program.exe" to install it, the install bails out, claiming
it needs a libpng14.so but mine is 12.so.  So I check the dvd's I just
burnt of the just released 2 weeks ago CENTOS-6.2.  Opps, same library.
Looking at my uptodate 10.04 LTS install, it also has libpng12.so.

I have to assume that is intentional.

That was last friday so I wrote CadSoft an email asking what linux
distribution was using that bleeding edge of a libpng.so library.  And 
of course no reply since there is no support for the freebie version.

What I intended was to let them know that they have effectively thrown the
linux market under the bus.  If I have to run fedora to get that library,
then I will do without.  I bailed on that distro 3 years ago because I was
tired of being treated like a lab rat because there was always something
that didn't work, and it was usually fairly important, like printing, or 
a half busted tcp stack that used 75% of the cpus to manage a 180k/sec
download.  And those sorts of 'bugs', when reported to bugzilla, are
always cleared with a "won't fix" message.  Scroooom.

It seems everytime we locate some grand and glorious new CAD/CAM pony,
and I go get it, there is always something it needs which the 2 distros
I use (PCLos-2011, ubuntu-10.04 LTS) don't have.  The latest HeeksCad
version .18, runs great under wine, but now we are told to use FreeCad,
but I have yet to get it to build on either of these machines, and
of course there are zero docs, I think because all these coders are
writing what they think is autocad, assuming everyone knows how to
run autocad.  But its 4 to 6 digit$/copy and I have never to
my knowledge ever been in the same county with a copy of it.

I got interested in emc because it does have great docs, an extreme
rarity in the linux world for technically complex programs.  The guys
who write those docs, you know who you are, are amazing.  Occasionally
a bit too concise but I sure couldn't do it as well, so many thanks.

rant mode off I guess, I am resigned to tape, drafting mylar, photo-resist
& very dangerous chemistry if I want to design pcb boards, I have been 
doing it that way since about 1959 now.  Yup, I had fingerprints in the
tv cameras that were on the Trieste when it went down 37,000+ feet into
the mohole in Feb 1960.  I didn't design those boards, Joe Pettit did
the design & etching, but quite a bit of the soldering I did do.  Then
when I was at KOTA-TV in RCSD in the later '60's, I did the whole bit 
for several projects we built in-house.

But lets put that in the proper perspective:

That, and $1.42 will get you a 16 oz coffee to go at 7-11.  :)

Cheers, Gene
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