Re: gEDA-user: Bug or feature?

[Peter Kaiser <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

$SPICE_MODEL_DIR sounds ok for me.

I like John suggestion to use an rc file. Except, that I would use gnetlistrc 
instead of gschemrc. 
Using the command line option is also ok for me. 


Peter



Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2005 21:34 schrieb Stuart Brorson:
> Hi Guys --
>
> > >Another suggestion:
> > >
> > >Would it be possible to define (preferences) a default directory for
> > >models and subcircuits? That way it would not be necessary to define the
> > >entire path in each of the components. To remain compatible, I'd suggest
> > >that 'file' attributes starting with / be absolute, else use the default
> > >directory.
> >
> > 	I'll let Stuart answer this as he is more familiar with models
> > and subcircuits.
>
> Personally, I like Peter Kaiser's suggestion (elsewhere in this
> thread) to use an environment variable to set the default SPICE model
> directory. I suggest the following:  $SPICE_MODEL_DIR.  Then,
> spice-sdb would look in the environment to see if this variable is
> set.  If so, it uses it.  If not, it reverts to ${HOME}.  If that
> fails (i.e. the specified files aren't found), spice-sdb can exit(-1)
> and spew an error message telling the user to set $SPICE_MODEL_DIR and
> try again.
>
> I can also set another command line flag --spice-model-dir which acts
> like setting the default SPICE model directory through the environment
> variable $SPICE_MODEL_DIR.  Then you would invoke spice-sdb like this:
>
> gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb --spice-model-dir /home/BillGates/spice-models
> circuit.sch
>
> Any comments, suggestions, or objections?
>
> Stuart