Re: gEDA-user: local only mode for syms and footprints

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Actually, this is an interesting point.  The last time I looked,
gsch2pch had the path to the footprint directories hard-coded into the
program.  That isn't the best practice . . . .  

The question is, how should gsch2pcb handle the footprint directory
search path?  It should have some sensible default so newbies don't
need to configure it, but the default shouldn't be hard-coded.
Perhaps a resource file living in ${PREFIX}/share/gsch2pcb? 

Stuart

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> John Luciani wrote:
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> > This is in the wiki at ---
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> Yes, I did follow the Wiki advice. (Actually found this hint in your FAQ
> first). I also tried to put the options into the project file and added
> the use-files switch like the tutorial suggests. This works in so far as
> my local repository is searched first. But if this search fails because
> an element is missing, then gschem2 still resorts to the systems newlib
> and if this fails too, it even falls back to the m4 lib.
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> This is not what I want. To avoid nasty surprises, I want to restrict
> gschem2pcb to the local repository only. At least gsch2pcb should
> complain that not all footprints could be found locally.
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