Re: gEDA-user: Little lost with netlist and gsch2pcb

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:07 -0400, Barry Demers wrote:
> At this point I am somewhat
>    concerned with my understanding of how the footprint files are
>    distributed throughout the file structure.  I am hoping that they are
>    arranged in a fashion similar to symbol files with the hierarchy of
>    the "rc" files allowing for footprints that I import/create on my
>    own.  

Fine that you made some progress with your problems.

I still wonder what did you guide to the graphical tool Xgsch2pcb
instead of the plain command line based. When I read the tutorials they
refer to plan gsch2pcb only. Has this changed?

Getting the right footprints can be a problem for beginners -- I can
remember that I had problems with m4 footprints and invalid file names.
My current project file looks like this:

stefan@AMD64-X2 ~ $ cat /mnt/data/stefan/gEDA/DAD/p1
schematics FPGA_Power.sch FPGA_B0B1.sch FPGA_B2B3.sch RAM.sch ADC.sch
TDC.sch Digital_In_A.sch Digital_In_B.sch Digital_In_C.sch
InputDividerCh1.sch InputDividerCh2.sch AmplifierCh1.sch
AmplifierCh2.sch Controller.sch PowerManager.sch DC_DC_Converter.sch
Lin_Regulators.sch Misc.sch AmpCommon.sch
output-name b1
skip-m4
elements-dir /usr/local/share/pcb-symbols-jcl_2008-4-25
elements-dir /home/stefan/gEDA/imported-footprints
elements-dir /mnt/data/stefan/gedasymbols/www/user/stefan_salewski/footprints
elements-dir /home/stefan/gEDA/custom-footprints

I do disable m4 footprints with skip-m4 statement (we can do this
because we have newlib copies for all m4 now). Footprint directories
have priority order -- when equal names occur multiple times, the later
entries in the project file have precedence. So files
in  /home/stefan/gEDA/custom-footprints overwrite other files for my
installation.

Best regards

Stefan Salewski




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