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Re: gEDA-user: Some problems

Peter Clifton wrote: 
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:20 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:

Dan McMahill wrote:


--skip-m4 really really should have made this problem go away if you're
using the one from geda-20070216.


Seems that you are right.

I just tried this option again and it really solves the problem
resulting from footprint name

SOT23-95P-280L1-5N__LTC_S5_Package

Maybe I have made a typo yesterday or forgot to delete all old files
before launching gsch2pcb again.

Sorry.

But using gsch2pcb-option --use-files does not help. 


--use-files doesn't stop M4 elements being used (it just causes gsch2pcb
to prefer newlib footprints over M4 ones).

(M4 is a macro processing language which is used to generate the oldlib
footprint code on the fly from a macro definition.)


What can I do if my schematics contain (newlib) footprints from John
Luciani containing many minus signs (-), but I still need some oldlib M4
footprints. Do I have to rename all newlib footprints which contain
multiple minus signs?



For now, renaming seems the easiest option to mix M4 and non-M4
generated footprints.

You might also convert the oldlib M4 footprints into individual files
(Dan will be able to say more about how this is done), then you can use
--skip-m4.
yeah, look at pcb/lib/m4lib_to_newlib.sh for converting an entire library. Or else you can use pcb/lib/QueryLibrary.sh for individuals.

We should be able to fix this more comprehensively in a future release,
which may either:

a) Fix the original M4 problem with "-" names
and/or:

I don't think this is really possible. You can't use "a-b" as a variable name in C either.

b) Ship all oldlib footprints pre-converted into separate files. 

already done starting with the pcb-20070208 release ;)



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