Re: gEDA-user: SOT23

[Matt Ettus <boyscout@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of all the macros to munge X1 and X2, one for a crystal has to be the worst...


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:32:36 -0600, Bill Wilson <billw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:56:24 -0800
> Matt Ettus <boyscout@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody have a surface mount crystal footprint?  I think its
> > HC49, but the only one in the library is through hole, and I think it
> > has other problems -- gsch2pcb causes it to have refdes "100" instead
> > of X1.
> 
> It's the PCB m4 macro PGK_CRYSTAL in misc.inc that is changing
> your "X1" to "100" before gsch2pcb can do anything.  This macro
> has defined some local variables (X1, X2, Y, Y1, Y2) for it's own
> use and that is munging your "X1".
> 
> About the only thing you can do in cases like this is create a custom
> m4 macro that works, or pick another refdes... lower case "x1" should work.
> 
> Bill
>