Re: gEDA-user: newbie library question

[Richard Rasker <rasker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Op maandag 06-10-2008 om 02:51 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Kai-Martin
Knaak:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:24:54 -0400, tj wrote:
> 
> > I asked a question earlier about oval pads and I have located what I am
> > looking for as an  example on the
> > http://www.gedasymbols.org/footprints/newlib/tests/14DIP_oval_pad.fp
> > page.
> > However once I download it, how do I ass it to a library? Like, I want
> > to put it in pcblib-newlib/generic library. I copied it to
> > /usr/local/share/pcb/pcblib-newlib/generic/14DIP_oval_pad.fp, but it
> > doesn't show up when running pcb.
> > 
> 
> This one is a true FAQ. This is what I wrote in response to a similar 
> question by Richard Rasker a few days ago:
> 
> The local paths shown by pcb 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
> 
> 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.

I solved this for (x)gsch2pcb by placing a symbolic link by the name of
'packages' in each project directory, pointing to the directory with the
actual footprints.

Richard Rasker



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