Re: gEDA-user: gch2pcb problem

["John Luciani" <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/7/07, Doug Glidden <41mortimer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hey,
>
>  I'm having a problem with the gsch2pcb utility.  In trying to convert my
> schematic (http://mrperson.org/mortimer/schematic.tar.gz),
> I have found that the m4 process seems to get stuck somewhere along the way.
>  It simply consumes more and more memory until it's finally killed by the
> kernel for taking up too much memory.  Netlist creation works fine, but when
> it tries to create the PCB file it gets hung up.  When I run the gnetlist
> command indepently with -v, it appears to finish going through all of the
> components, but then it just hangs after the last one.  Anyone ever seen
> this problem before?

Sometimes this is caused by setting the footprint attribute to an
incorrect value.
Try running gsch2pcb on a smaller schematic to isolate the offending footprints.

I noticed that the SIL footprints had a space in the footprint
attribute value. Are
you sure that is correct?

(* jcl *)

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