Re: gEDA-user: gschem2pcb Issues

[Marc Reibel <marc@reibel-web.de>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 radiowdvl@hushmail.com wrote:

> I don't know if I've done something wrong, but I created a fairly extensive
> schematic in gschem, having all components named (U1, R23, etc.) and all with
> a legal footprint as described in gnetlist's README.pcb file.
> The problem is that when I run gschem2pcb I get all kinds of errors, all of
> which are variations of the theme:
> "Error: the footprint X for the device Y does not exist"
> The footprints X include such favorites as D, DW, RADIAL_CAN, CONNECTOR, and LED...
> Basically, is there something else that has to be done in order to get gschem2pcb
> to work, or did I install something incorrectly?

Hi,

I've had the same problem and solved it by choosing only
footprints existing in the pcb-m4-directory. Then it worked
fine.

Marc
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