Op woensdag 01-10-2008 om 12:58 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Kai-Martin Knaak: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:45:16 +0200, Richard Rasker wrote: > > > It's almost as if some path setting is wrong or missing; yet I did add > > the geda-0.0.2/bin directories to $PATH, and geda-0.0.2/share/man to > > $MANPATH (I added the export commands to .bash_profile).
I forgot to mention that PCB's library window does show the expected directories newlib, pcblib, and pcb-newlib; and these directories do contain the predefined footprints. Yet these doesn't appear to relate to the structure under /share/pcb/newlib/. > The local paths pcb shows in the footprint chooser are read from > $HOME/.pcb/preferences > > In my case, the config file contains a line like this: > library-newlib = ~/geda/footprints:~/geda/luciani > > You can set this list of paths from within the GUI (GTK-GUI assumed): > File --> Preferences --> Library ??? if I enter the path to newlib here, PCB's library window shows double entries for every subdirectory -- so I see two instances of "analog-devices", "burr-brown", "connectors" etcetera. So I have a suspicion that this library-newlib setting isn't the right solution at all. > Note, this library path does not affect gsch2pcb/gnetlist. > The recommended place to set the lib path for these tools is > gafrc at one of the various local or system-wide places. And what exactly am I supposed to enter there? I can only find a file geda-0.0.2/share/gEDA/system-gafrc, and there's no line defining library locations or whatever. And yes, I really need gsch2pcb to work -- it's the only way I can reliably design pcb's with hundreds of components. What I don't understand is why I have to bother with these things all of a sudden -- and why this doesn't appear to be documented anywhere. All the manuals simply say that I can simply create footprints and save these somewhere under the newlib directory. And in previous gEDA versions, I never encountered these problems. So I'm convinced that something else is wrong. The central question here is where PCB looks for its libraries -- in this new installation, PCB does find footprint libraries, but obviously not the ones under geda-0.0.2/share/pcb. It's rather puzzling so far. But thanks all the same, best regards, Richard Rasker _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
