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

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

Maybe pcb should look to see if the ".fp" is part of the filename?

Steve M.

Dan McMahill wrote:
> Dan McMahill wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I left out the most important question.  What exactly did you set your 
> footprint= to in your schematic?  It should be SOT89 and *not* SOT89.fp 
> otherwise you will feed garbage to m4.
>
> gsch2pcb will search for files without the .fp and then automatically 
> search for files with .fp if the former is gone.
>
> -Dan
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