Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb creating board.pcb syntax errors?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Jackson wrote:
> Some of the elements in my generated (by gsch2pcb) board.pcb have parse
> errors.  (for a new project, but it already has many elements)
> 
> After Element(blah) (body) there's stray text:
> 
> ERROR parsing file 'board.pcb'
>     line:        1058
>     description: 'parse error'
> 
> Element(0x00 "" "" "" 203 0 3 100 0x00)
> (
> ...
> ).fp(SOT89.fp,U301,unknown)
> 
> That is the footprint, and the footprint is correct.
> 
> If I zap them all (in vi, :g/^)\.fp/s/.*/)/ ) then the board loads fine,
> but that information (the name of the part) isn't in the Element line,
> so the netlist is scrogged (which causes pcb to crash unless you save
> and reload, in which case it prints a list of all the missing pins next
> time you optimize rats).
> 
> It smacks of an m4 bug, but I don't even know if m4 is involved here.
> The file /usr/local/share/pcb/pcblib-newlib/geda/SOT89.fp does not have
> the stray text (assuming that file was generated by m4).

hmmm.  I think I may have an idea.  I doubt this is any sort of m4 bug 
but rather a bug in how gsch2pcb creates a file to feed to m4.  What do 
you have in your project file and what gsch2pcb version do you have?

Actually, if you can bundle up a small test case that demonstrates this 
bug it will help me in fixing it.

More or less whats happening is gsch2pcb is looking for SOT89 and 
SOT89.fp files and also trying to send 
PKG_SOT89.fp(SOT89.fp,U301,unknown) through m4 where it really shouldn't 
have the .fp there.

If you haven't seen a fix in about a week then bug me about it since 
that probably means I got busy and then forgot.

-Dan





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