On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:54 +0200, Richard Rasker wrote: > The question is simple: The directory /home/richard/electron/local_fps > contains my local footprints. Now I'd like to tell gsch2pcb (and > xgsch2pcb -- very nice tool, BTW!) about this location, regardless of > the project. Lots of these components (and hence footprints) are used in > several projects, therefore I wish to have these globally available.
No direct way that I know of. > So far, the -d command line option of gsch2pcb works, but that's no use > with xgsch2pcb. Also, it's a bit bothersome to have to enter this > library path every single time. > > So I tried adding the following line to the project file > (driver3.gsch2pcb): > > elements-dir "/home/richard/electron/local_fps" > > Alas, xgsch2pcb doesn't recognize this as a valid option, and I can't > find any help or options listing for this tool. That was a mis-feature of older xgsch2pcb - it would die if it encountered an option it didn't recognise. Grab the latest in the git repository with: git clone git://git.gpleda.org/xgsch2pcb.git Then enter the directory, run "./autogen.sh" "./configure" with any options you want - depending on where you want it installed, if you have gEDA in $HOME/geda, e.g.: "./configure --prefix=/home/XXXXX/geda" "make" "make install" If you had gEDA installed from the distro, that will be in /usr/bin. In that case, you might want to go with the default ./configure which will locate xgsch2pcb in /usr/local/bin. (sudo make install). That shuold ensure the tool is picked up without adding to your search paths for the shell / desktop. > Nevertheless, I tried > copying this file to several locations (my home directory, the project > directory, ~/.gEDA/); I tried adding the line to system-garfrc, I tried > adding a library-newlib line to ~/.pcb/preferences, and I tried a > source-library line in gafrc instead. During these attempts, I perused > the mailing list archives and several gEDA tutorials, but all to no > avail -- so now I don't know what else to try but to return to this > mailing list ... gsch2pcb (underlying xgsch2pcb) doesn't have any place to set global defaults. This said, reading the source, it looks like it will respond to an environment variable: PCBLIBPATH=/path/to/a:/path/to/b > It must of course be possible to use xgsch2pcb with local footprint > libraries -- so what am I doing wrong? How can I tell gsch2pcb and > xgsch2pcb once and for all that I want to use the footprints > in /home/richard/electron/local_fps? Not currently possible, but something which we can look into if / when we rework gsch2pcb. I just use the "packages" directory in my project for footprints. gsch2pcb looks there by default. Best wishes, Peter C. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
