Re: gEDA-user: Problems with footprints

[Bill Wilson <billw@wt.net>]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:16:39 +0200
Christian Treldal <chris@taarnkammeret.dk> wrote:

> fre, 2004-07-23 kl. 18:19 skrev Bill Wilson:
> <snip>
> > > Line 79-80 of board.pcb are as follows:
> > > PKG_RECTANGULAR2N(BRE300, C6, 82nF,  600, 150)
> > > PKG_RECTANGULAR2N(BRE300, C5, 1uF,  600, 150)
> > 
> > If your footprint is BRE300, I'm not sure why "RECTANGULAR2N" is
> > showing up as part of the PKG macro.

> Tnx for your reply. I've sent you a mail with the .sch file. If any
> problems with attatched files you can have a look at the file here

Ah, I at first looked an older PCB m4 install...

In the PCB 20040530 m4 directory there is now a geda.inc which
defines a bunch of packages like the BRE parts.  There is:

define(`PKG_BRE300',  `PKG_RECTANGULAR2N(`$1', `$2', `$3',  600, 150)');

But the problem is that there is no RECTANGULAR2N defined
anywhere in the m4 directory so that package is just passed
on for gsch2pcb to process.  And when a substitution macro
like that can't be done it results in an unexpected format
for gsch2pcb... I should probably try to trap that out and
generate a more informative error message.

In the meantime does anyone know why the RECTANGULAR2N m4 macro
is missing from PCB 20040530?  Is it just an oversight or is
the geda.inc in development or what?

In any case, it seems the BRE package definitions at least are
incomplete and for now you just can't use them.

Bill