Re: gEDA-user: Dashes in footprint names legal? Bug?

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:00 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> John doesn't use the M4 libraries, so disables them.  If you have the
> M4 libraries enabled, then '-' becomes an operator (subtract) in M4
> and is not a legal footprint name.
> 
> This is especially problematic when the string up to that character
> happens to also be an existing footprint name.
> 

I had this problem too long time ago, and was not able to find the
solution without asking on this list.

I think for current PCB all M4 footprints are converted to newlib ones,
so use of M4 should be disabled be default. It is?




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