gEDA-user: gschem vs. PCB diode pin numbering

[Matthew Lewis <whammy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was double checking a pcb layout today and I discovered a rather nasty 
gotcha. It seems that gschem and PCB don't agree on which end of a diode 
should be pin 1. Gschem views pin 1 as the anode and PCB considers pin 1 
to be the cathode. It doesn't prevent you from laying out a board 
correctly, but it does cause the silkscreen polarity to be printed 
backwards (for the SOD devices at least).

I've also noticed that gschem searches the older m4 library first ahead 
of the new pcblib. Is there a way to get PCB to use the newlib first? 
The reason I ask is because I swapped the pins on the diodes to match 
gschem in the newlib, but the change had no effect since the older m4 
lib is being used when you import a schematic. You have to go back and 
manually replace the footprints if you want newlib.


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