Re: gEDA-user: Read Garbage errors in gsch2pcb

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0500, Rob Butts wrote:
>>    Now it's stalling and shows the following
>>
>>    [rob@localhost project-mykoolride]$ gsch2pcb myproject

It is likely you have a footprint with a name that includes a "-" or 
some other character that m4 is not entirely happy with.

> 
> There are some bugs in the m4 footprints that can cause infinite loops.
> I submitted a patch for that waaay before I even had commit privs and
> the general response was "don't use m4 footprints".  The way you do that
> is put "skip-m4" in your "myproject" file.  The "standard" m4 footprints
> are rendered into static files when you build PCB so you should be fine.
> 

do you still have that patch around?

Most of the footprints I would use are from the m4 library.

-Dan




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