Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb options with xsch2pcb

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 00:08 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Just tried to use xgsch2pcb with my current project. Unfortunately, 
> update of the layout failed because of missing options. With gsch2pcb I 
> give a bunch of options in a project file, like suggested in the 
> tutorial. Among others it gives the path to the local libary of 
> footprints. The proj file contains:
> 
> /----------strom.proj----------
> schematics strom_0_master.sch
> output-name strom
> skip-m4
> verbose
> elements-dir /home/kmk/lilalaser/geda/footprints
> use-files
> \-----------------------------
> 
> If I try to insert this into strom.gsch2pcb, the application complains 
> about unknown optins. There does not seem to be a man page or some 
> helpful output with the option "-?". 

xgsch2pcb doesn't have any dialogs to edit such extra properties yet,
and we didn't implement the .gsch2pcb file parser to ignore / store
options it doesn't understand. (It should really store them to re-save).

Does anyone know if any gsch2pcb project file options are order
sensitive?

This is one of the major outstanding issues for xgsch2pcb to be
generally useful. I workaround it myself by putting my footprints in a
"packages" directory (searched by gsch2pcb without any extra options),
and avoiding M4 incompatible footprint names.

Please file a bug on the xgsch2pcb portion on sourceforge, reminding me
(or anyone else) to implement this feature.

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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