Re: gEDA-user: PCB library problems

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to; 
You say project, I say projectrc. . .

Glad to help!

Stuart


> 
> Stuart,
> 
> Thanks for the information.  When I started to create a projectrc file,
> I found that these provisions had been included in the project file
> documented in gsch2pcb tutorial and shown by gsch2pcb --help.  A simple
> modification of the project file that I was using took care of the
> problem.
> 
> I did trip on one thing.  Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks to me like order
> is important in the listing of the entries in that file.  If that's true
> it might be helpful to newbies to mention it somewhere.
> 
> Anyway, the problem is solved, and I thank you for the information.
> 
> 	Harold Skank
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 16:27 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Gsch2pcb's default directories are hardcoded into the /usr/local
> > hierarchy.  If your footprints don't live in the expected places, you
> > can specify where they live using a "projectrc" file.  For example, my
> > projectrc file holds this:
> > 
> > 
> > schematics OptProxSensor_1.sch
> > m4-pcbdir /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/m4
> > elements-dir ./footprints
> > output-name OptProxSensor
> > 
> > 
> > the elements-dir line points to the location where I put my local
> > newlib footprints.  You can have more than one elements-dir line
> > specifying different directories. 
> > 
> > Then, to run gsch2pcb, you'd say:
> > 
> > gsch2pcb projectrc
> > 
> > HTH!
> > 
> > Stuart
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