Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist errors

[joeft <joeft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos,

Thanks for the detailed reply.  As a general rule I ignore the pintype errors since I will need to violate them at times.  Since my original post I've observed that smaller files work better than large ones.  In any case, we'll grab the update to g_netlist.c from cvs and try again. 

Thanks again for your help.

Joe T

 
-----Original Message-----
>From: Carlos Nieves Ónega <cnieves@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 15, 2006 1:44 PM
>To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist errors
>
>Hi Joe,
>
>El mar, 14-02-2006 a las 14:33 -0800, joeft escribió:
>[snip]
>> I've numbered the two sections of my slotted part with the same reference 
>> designator (per the gsch2pcb tutorial).  I would expect (at worst) that 
>> I might get a duplicate reference designator error, but not that it would 
>> fail to finish.  If I number them differently (e.g. U1A, U1B ...) I don't 
>> believe that PCB will think they're the same part.
>
>I think this is related to your previous error number 3... thus I hope
>it is fixed in the last release.
>
>[snip]
>> >Thanks for the reply.  Based on previous discussions, I have considered 
>> >updated to the next release, but we're in the middle of a large project 
>> >and am not sure we can take on the risk of changing tool sets just now.  
>> >Installing the release I'm using (20050805), took more effort than 
>> >expected.  Having the last error fixed is a benefit I'll have to weigh.
>
>If you want to get your last error fixed, and you can recompile the
>code, you only have to patch gnetlist/src/g_netlist.c as shown in CVS
>(version 1.39 to 1.40). It is a simple patch that won't hurt you. 
>
>> >Having the symbols updated won't help me much.  I'm using custom symbols 
>> >for the most part.  This is not my preference, but this whole design was 
>> >ported from another tool (schematic pages and all symbols) and for the 
>> >most part, the existing gEDA symbols "don't fit".  Eventually, I'd like 
>> >to re-work everything to take advantage of updated gEDA symbol libraries.
>
>The changes made to the symbols are mainly because of missing or wrong
>pintype and pinlabel attributes. The pintype attribute is an important
>one for the drc2 backend, because it checks if an output pin is
>connected to another output pin, for example.
>If you don't update the symbols, you just will get warnings like
>"unknown connected to unknown", which means that a pin with pintype
>"unknown" is connected to another pin with pintype "unknown". You can
>ignore them if you want.
>
>The drc2 backend is highly configurable, so you can skip the pintype
>test if you want. See the documentation inside gnet-drc2.scm file (look
>for dont-check-pintypes-of-nets).
>
>Regards,
>
>Carlos
>