Re: gEDA-user: Help with creating schematics that can be netlisted/placed via PCB

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Look for the lines (define m4-pcbdir "") line in the following files:

  MY_GEDA_DIR/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-PCBboard.scm
  MY_GEDA_DIR/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-gsch2pcb.scm

Are they set to the place where common.m4 is located?


(* jcl *)

On 6/2/05, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings.  I've been on this list before, but haven't had the
> opportunity to actually use gschem for a real-world project until now.
> 
> I created a small computer around the W65C816 microprocessor.  Please
> see http://www.falvotech.com/projects/kestrel/8k.php .  After posting
> the above site, I have had a few people who expressed a desire to
> purchase the Kestrel 8K as a single-board computer for home-hacking
> and other liesurely homebrew computing fun.
> 
> So, I decided to install the latest gEDA software via your
> distribution ISO (nice BTW!), so that I can produce a pretty-printed
> schematic diagram, and some get some PCB artwork created for it.  It
> installed cleanly so far as I could tell.  Loading up gschem, I see it
> is somewhat more refined than when I last remembered it.  Although
> there are some UI-related issues that are outstanding to me, the
> program is functional enough that I am able to get useful work done.
> 
> However, as you don't have a W65C816 component in your micro library,
> I decided to create one.  I followed the instructions as described in the
> online documentation for creating symbols.  I have attributes pinseq,
> pintype, pinnumber, and pinlabel defined for all pins.  I have a
> floating refdes=U? with just the U? visible.  I do have a device= and
> footprint= attributes as well, also with their values visible (really,
> is there a specific reason why I need both a hidden device= attribute
> and a generic text label?  That just seems so wasteful to me.  If this
> is an issue, please let me know why it is an issue, so that I have
> some understanding should any errors appear in the future).  I also
> have a description= attribute, which is entirely hidden.
> 
> Now, what I do to recreate my problem is this:
> 
> 1.  Create a new schematic in some project.
> 2.  Place a W65C816 symbol.
> 3.  Place a 62256 symbol of some kind.  Doesn't matter which one.
> 4.  Place a 7400 symbol.
> 5.  Don't bother attempting to wire anything up.  Just save it, and
> close gschem.  The idea is, I want pcb to see that there are three
> chips.  Again, baby-steps.
> 6.  In the geda window, click on your .sch file, and instruct it to
> create a PCB from it.
> 
> At step 6, I get the following errors:
> 
> gnetlist -g PCBboard -o blah.pcb blah.sch
> gEDA/gnetlist version 20050313
> gEDA/gnetlist comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see COPYING for more details.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
> conditions; please see the COPYING file for more details.
> 
> Remember to check that your schematic has no errors using the drc2 backend.
> You can do it running 'gnetlist -g drc2 your_schematic.sch -o drc_output.txt'
> and seeing the contents of the file drc_output.txt.
> 
> m4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/pcb/m4/common.m4: No such file or directory
> 
> Now, the problem here is, I did install my installation in my own home
> directory.  Is this a bug, where it is trying to find common.m4 in
> some system-shared location?  In order to perform this action, must I
> install system-wide?  Both PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set correctly.
> 
> I think once I get this resolved, I'll undoubtedly run into other
> errors, which I'll have no choice but to ask about here.  But this
> error in particular is definitely obstructing any progress I'm having
> on my project.
> 
> If anyone can tell me what I need to change to get it to locate the
> correct common.m4 file, that would be greatly helpful.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Samuel A. Falvo II
>