Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb : coming up empty

[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:01 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> Andy Peters wrote:
> > Happy New Year, gang ...
> > I tried to run gsch2pcb to get the PCB files, using:
> > $  andy$ gsch2pcb -v --use-files --elements-dir /Users/andy/ 
> > Library/gEDA/pcb power.sch > gs.txt
> > and I get an odd failure.  The three components on the schematic  
> > that use footprints in my library (~/Library/gEDA/pcb/asp/) are  
> > not handled by the netlister.
> .
> .
> .
> > If I change
> > the footprint to something in John's library (anything, it doesn't  
> > matter), the component is processed properly and the footprint is  
> > found.
> > So, what causes gsch2pcb to crap out like this?
> Have you got a file in the local dir called gafrc
> with contents like:
> lib-newlib = /home/john/EEProjects/now/circuitboards/footprints_pcb?
>
> If not, and you're using the latest code, you need it.

I have a gafrc in ~/.gEDA, which includes the component-library lines  
for all of my symbol libraries.

I don't have the elements-dir line in gafrc (I didn't know it could/ 
should be there), but my command-line has one, and I know that it's  
being honored because if I change the footprint= line in the  
schematic that references the bad footprint with a good footprint in  
my library directory, it works.  (Apologies for the run-on sentence!)

I created a project file which includes a use-files directive and an  
elements-dir line, and used that instead of the command-line above  
and it still fails in the same way.

So I think that my footprint is broken, but I dunno how or why!

-a




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