Re: gEDA-user: Strange gsch2pcb error

[Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:07:23 +0000, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Error sounded like it might be a classic:
> 
> Don't put "-" in footprint names
> 
Ahhh. That would explain it. Those packages came from
http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html. Are none of
these correctly named?

> grep footprint *.sch | grep "-"
> footprint=SOIC-127P-600L1-8N
> footprint=SOIC-127P-600L1-8N
> 
> I found it in this dir:
> ./packages/m4/SOIC-127P-600L1-8N
> 
> Why did you name that sub dir "m4"?
> 
Good question. This was done long ago. On this note, what is the
recommended file naming convention for footprints? Do you use the .fp
extension?

> You can get away with it (I think), if you don't use any (actual) M4
> symbols, and you pass the --skip-m4 option to gnetlist, or put "skip-m4"
> inside the project file.
> 
I'll just fix the directory name. Should I just move the contents of
packages/m4 to packages/newlib (or perhaps just packages/)?

Thanks!

- Ben


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