Re: gEDA-user: PCB Install

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:00:31PM -0400, enist@cox.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some questions about my pcb install.  The build completes without any errors but as far as I can tell, it did not build everything.  Not all of the part libraries, examples, and docs are being built.  The pcb build seems fine but does not function completely.  I can open it up and change things in the menu bar but the buttons in the lower left corner do not function.  Another problems is, the pcb and m4 directory is not created or found when I am performing a gschem -> pcb.
> 
> I did do some poking around in the archives but did not find any reference to this possible problem.
> 
> My distribution is Fedora.  Could someone please let me know if I am doing something wrong in the install or what they did to install it on Fedora.
> 
> 

Why do you say not all of the part libraries are being built?  It looks 
like they are from your log.  If you look in /usr/local/share/pcb/m4
and /usr/local/share/pcb/newlib you should see the libraries.

ls -l /usr/local/share/pcb/Pcb

should show something like

-rw-r--r--   1 someuser somegroup     22896 Feb 16 12:27 /usr/local/share/pcb/Pcb

This is puzzling.

As far as gschem -> pcb, are you running 'gsch2pcb' or 'gschem2pcb'?  The
former is the more recent and useful program.  It allows various paths
to be configured so you might make sure you have that set up right.

When you ran pcb, did you execute "/usr/local/bin/pcb" after the install
or "cd /path/to/sources/src && ./pcbtest.sh" before the install?
Did you get any error messages in the PCB message window right at startup?

In pcb, if you open the library window, do you see the various libraries?

-Dan


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