gEDA-user: Re: PCB question

[Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>> I'm puzzled by this response. Under File->Preferences in the
>> Library tab there is an entry box for "Element directories" that
>> asks for a colon separated list of directories. Where does this
>> list get stored?
> 
> These are the times I like it when I'm wrong.  Both gtk and lesstif
> allow colon-separated lists, to provide for multiple newlib
> directories.  However, it does seem to override the default library.
> 
>> Where is this "settings" file for the gtk hid?
> 
> IIRC gtk uses the standard gconf stuff.
> 
> Note that PCB (any hid) attempts to load settings from
> $prefix/share/pcb/settings, ~/.pcb/settings, and ./pcb.settings.
> 
> You can use :SaveSettings() to save them:
> 
> SaveSettings()
> SaveSettings(local)
> 
> Saves settings.
> 
> If you pass no arguments, the settings are stored in
> @code{$HOME/.pcb/settings}.  If you pass the word @code{local} they're
> saved in @code{./pcb.settings}.

OK, "wart alert". I go into preferences and I expect to see the
current search path there. It's blank. OK, so I put in a search
path and do what the text in the box says to do, and it doesn't
work. Nothing changes.

So I do a :SaveSettings() and uncomment the "lib-newlib" setting
and suddenly the "packages" library directory works perfectly and
according to all the hints I found about a "./packages" directory.

I'll file bug reports for these.
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